They got it all wrong.

Madelyn 2022-03-22 09:01:06

Five stars for books and two stars for movies. There is no sense of substituting the times at all, and it was filmed from a modern Hollywood perspective, not from Jackson and Mississippi in the raging sixties. It does not show how much risk they took in doing this, and how scared they were in their hearts. That is what happened in a worldview that takes racial discrimination as self-evident common sense and unquestionable laws of nature. How can it be taken so lightly? Although I admit that the book is more free and the plot is indeed quite a lot, but Two and a half hours has been very tolerant of a movie, but even the story is not clear. It does not describe the deep relationship between Skeeter and Constantine, nor does it describe Skeeter's desperate pursuit of Constantine's whereabouts. In the end, Charlotte Phelan turned out to be a positive character, and also changed the story of Constantine's dismissal beyond recognition. in the book, She ain't sorry for firing Constantine at all, what else to drive to Chicago to pick him up. . . In that era, even if she was sorry, she couldn't do such a thing, okay? The lines are trying their best to fit the original, but the ideology is not in line with the original, and everything is in vain. Those who are interested in civil right can use this movie as a negative teaching material for discourse. Don’t read it if you’re not interested, don’t be fooled by the score.

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  • Elizabeth Leefolt: [after Mae Mobley has used a toilet dropped on Hilly's lawn, Elizabeth pulls her off and spanks her; crying sounds are heard offscreen] You will get a disease from those toilets!

  • Minny Jackson: Eat my shit.

    Hilly Holbrook: What'd you say?

    Minny Jackson: I said eat... my... shit.

    Hilly Holbrook: Have you lost your mind?

    Minny Jackson: No, ma'am but you is about to. 'Cause you just did.