"The Help"

This is good, because I was just the other day thinking "y'know what we need another of? Movies where enlightened White People teach Black People how to stand up for themselves."



You've gotta love the naked, self-congratulatory (and yet UTTERLY unself-conscious) pandering involved in a setup like this - i.e. how, in this scenario, an early kickoff for the Civil Rights movement is basically a happy side-effect to the REAL important triumph: An upscale white girl learning to stand up to her tradition/marriage-fixated mother.