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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh god, the whole freaking movie was racist IMO.  "The Help" was a freaking white woman.  Ugh.  Does no one see how awful this book was?  The whole thing makes me so uncomfortable.  The way that everyone was patting themselves on the back for giving Octavia Spencer the Oscar was so cringe-inducing...the standing ovation...when really they were just applauding themselves for being magnanimous enough to give a black woman an Oscar.  Ick ick ick.

I am not the only person who feels this way, am I?[/quote]

I don't understand why anyone thinks The Help was racist. It told a story about women whose lives were completely overlooked during that time period. It was sad and moving. Do you think it was racist because the book was written by a white woman? Isn't The Help her story as well as the story of the maids?

Viola Davis's performance will stay with me for the rest of my life. Meryl Streep's performance was another of her many virtuoso performances. Nothing new or different there. The academy made a mistake. [/quote]

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