is nothing new, incidentally. In 2011, ahead of the film's release, black novelist Martha Southgate pennedand a number of other popular works that deal with the civil rights era is the notion that a white character is somehow crucial or even necessary to tell this particular tale of black liberation."she regretted taking part in the project
. "It wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard," Davis said at the time. "I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie.
If you Never watch this movie before it was on Netflix you had a field day with that movie
I’m watching who killed malcom x & I’m just so sad. He was an amazing person and we never learned about him in school, we only learned about mlk, but malcom x was so on point with everything he was saying. The whole police system and federal govt needs major reforming
Delete this, watch The innocence files
It stunk.
The Help is exactly the “feel good” movie 🍿 🎥 adults don’t need right now. Watch “When They See Us”. You will be shook to the core. After episode 4, I literally could not move or stop 😭. BLM
The HELP!?! Emma Stone & White Gaze with Poisoned Cake? How about Raoul Peck’s JamesBaldwin masterpiece IAmNotYourNegro? ava’s CRUCIAL 13th? The classic SpikeLeeJoint dotherightthing or Malcolm? Selma? HiddenFigures? Harriet!! Of COURSE ew leaps to white-gaze crap.🙄
Weird.
Some people has no taste🤮 Skip this white savior movie.
Well, I can't say it's unexpected. I had a white colleague insist that I read that damn book and was completely dumbfounded when I refused and told her why. She insisted it didn't have a racist feel. Smdh
No
Ok that was back in the era but it was real and you cannot sweep life under the rug or pass it off. Sometimes we all need a wake call / trigger to say hey we are all human And to show respect for one and other. Another book / movie that is an eye opener is The Hate You Give
Loved this movie And I cried And shocked the hell out of me for the most part . I also read the book. I really can't believe that white folks could/can be so racist and Not even know it . So heart wrenching to watch. But so real it hurts
Watch “13th” if you want to learn something!
atownsquare That must be why it kept freezing and buffering when I was trying to watch it yesterday!
Wow!
Stop
Ewww
That really says a lot...and none of it good. Sigh...
Lies....
Netflix sent out emails saying it was new..and recommended. No I did not watch it.
Oh no
Try the 13th instead.
Who can save us? 👇 Jesus wants us to turn away from our sins and believe The Gospel 💕💜❤💜🙏❤💕🙏💕
Have we tried sending Octavia Spencer to the White House with baked goods?!
Of course it does. This is the image that suits many 'people.'
I don't have Netflix so I can't check. Wonder what kind of categorization and algorithms it uses...wonder if that affected the ease with which folks found The Help? Anyone taken Netflix to task on this? Boycott? What other options do they offer AND are they free? Was it free?
white people no...........
Perhaps The Uncomfortable Truth could be a better way for setting into a conversation starter. The Uncomfortable Truth - watched this via Amazon Prime and...worth the watch. BeTheChange
Get Out in 2nd
This is so sad...
White Savior: The Movie Trailer via YouTube
White people: failed again
WTF!!!
Watch ava’s 13th instead people!!
So is Driving Miss Daisy number 2?
Must be why everybody’s hunger for justice and liberation is being so easily satiated by shallow symbolism.
This is some sad shit. Just wow.
Siiiiiiigh
May I suggest Just Mercy?
I am 😶. Stop promoting White-people-do-good movie. Watch 13th!
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“Proud to say I’ve never watched THE HELP or THE BLIND SIDE...movie about the Black person who helped a white person find their humanity” -Prof. viet_t_nguyen, PulitzerPrizes-winning novelist
13th is also on Netflix
tariqnasheed
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Check out Sorry to Bother You on Hulu. The Help is good but has the white savior narrative
Can anyone trust what NetFlix says anyways?
Watched it back in 8th grade and watched it again yesterday
What a bunch of sheep
Please no
If this is how you’re trying to understand black people....
FFS really? Maybe watch “13th” or “When They See Us” not this insipid white savior b.s designed to make white people feel good about an iota of concern about negroes back in the day. We don’t get anywhere on race relations when the uncomfortable aspects are never examined.
was gone with the wind unavailable?
This Video is Powerful and Uplifting. Full link 👉🏾
WHITE PEOPLE, NO
Y’all must be crazy and clueless!!!!
'I'm one of the good white people, oc I hate that there are racists. I'm going to watch a movie where I can feel forgiven and feel like I made a difference'
Swing and a huge miss...
P
Jfc.
Welp
How They See Us. Please.
Omg.
An amazing movie to watch!
Watch Fruitvale station
are you freaking kidding? Watch Selma, read MLK's speeches (all of them, not just I Have a Dream)...FFS
No, no, no! NOT The Help. Think - who wrote it? who has the Savior role! Try Twelve Years a Slave, or When they See Us, or many others. NOT. THE. HELP.
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I recommend this film instead:
Right
Baby steps, I guess
The Help?!?! The white savior movie?!?! What in the hell no wonder white people don’t get it.
They should also watch Just Mercy.
WTF
Chocolate 🥧, anyone?
It's an excellent movie but now is not the time for ME to watch it. It made me angry to watch it the first time. To see it now, hell nah! But I did watch the very last part. 'You a godless woman! Ain't you tired!?' Amen!
A movie about black domestic servants.
Hidden Figures
Hopefully, they'll continue with 'Selma' and 'When They See Us'.
May I suggest American Son now playing on Netflix.
James Baldwin doc on Netflix. Sometimes the eeal dealnis the only deal.
They coddling themselves
disappointing
Chuji_Wu White Supremacist are dreaming of what may come from Their protest.
Can we start a petition to take 'The Help' down from Netflix?
white people love some good white savior stories
White people deserve the emotional and existential agony that they are in.
The Help is a feel good movie..for white folks allows them to feel like they understand the struggle/would have stood up/been the white savior if they'd lived in that time/place, thereby assuaging their guilt over all the times they could've actually stood up/been an ally &didnt
Oh, a white savior one. Guess The Blind Spot is the second most watched.
Watch 'When They See Us' instead.
Watch ava film 13th
Try Malcolm X SpikeLeeJoint
1AngryBlackMan
White people...this ain't it.
How about a triple feature of The Help, Driving Miss Daisy, and Green Book to help get woke this weekend
Yikes.
Will y’all post something similar when The 13th does the same thing?
Thank You I will be watching
christinuviel MickyBell littlehannah84 😉
It feels good to scoff, but folks could just rewatch 13th this week so it actually rises in the algorithm and is the first thing people see when they turn on Netflix.
Everyone should watch The Standford Experiment Movie on Netflix. It’s a depiction of the controversial experiment done in the 70s. It demonstrates how easy abuse of power can take place, it’s very important to see, helps analyze our current state of law enforcement and gov
Chocolate pie
😹😹😹the help? 🙄
You’re a big help! 🙄 Tyler Aquilina, you’re doing God’s work.
Ofc it does 😠
WTF white people?! Watch Malcolm X instead. It’s on Netflix too.
A must watch! The entirety of Ava DuVernay's '13th' FREE on youtube. Great educational documentary on the intersections of prison-industrial complex, mass incarceration, race and the justice system
Better Options ON NETFLIX 13th Dear White People Self Made Homecoming See You Yesterday FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, DO BETTER
The Hate You Give is a better option
Really? 🤫🤔😡🤐
Just dumb elie..why not look at avey d's 13
Again, more tone deaf editorial choices. I addressed this same issue with ew on Twitter months ago. Y'all will never get it.
13th should be the most viewed right now
KILL ME
Ummm nope
Or maybe you could read books? Listen to us? Watch actual activists videos? Instead of going for fictional & romanticized work. Whats happening is very real & it has been going on for long enough, now.
........anyways SO stream 13th and when they see us instead!!
Fab film but the book is much better.
stephwelsford
I would suggest Just Mercy as an introduction to the work of Bryan Stevenson and his work to free innocent Black ppl from prison. Also, the importance of his work to create the definitive memorial to victims of lynching can't be overstated. EqualJustice
Mudbound, one of the best movies on class, interracial solidarity, racism and love. It’s brilliant and it’s on Netflix
Even Trading Places would be better. It doesn’t mince on the hypocrisy. And there are no white saviors.
Wrong movie. What we should be watching is 13th.
harumutasa Of all the things white people are watching to educate themselves 🙄
If you’re a confused white person in this thread who watched The Help this week , please go watch 13th instead
SMH..... The movie was so poorly done! They changed the story to make it a white savior narrative!
Why not throw 'Driving Miss Daisy' in there while they're at it.
😑😤😑 literally just watch anything else. anything by Ava and also I am Not Your Negro on Amazon Prime
This ain't it y'all
Seriously screw TheHelp. Im glad Viola and Octavia made something outta their opportunity, butt that movie remains a whole ass dumpster fire of white gaze revisionism. Green Book is still 🗑, too.
aaaaaaand I'm out
Hey Netflix put “Fruitvale Station” in the cue it’s more relevant than “The Help” and people will see a much better example of Ryan Coogler’s talent than the totally overrated “Black Panther.”
they need to be watching roots 😭
Why the fuck is this happening when Kong: Skull Island is the most slept on movie from the past five years?
Alex Haley's 'Roots' should be shown annually - why hasn't this educational 8-part mini-series been shown since its first showing in 1977? People were glued to their tvs and would be again.
My teenage daughter chose (and recommended to friends) 13th instead. Netflix
Shame on you Viola!!! Shame Shame
aht aht aht no white savior narrative movies
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Actually disgusting
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One of the good movies!!! A must see right now ❤️
Of all the damn movies.... 😑
Karen KARENING STRIKES AGAIN 🤦🏽♀️
How about this...instead of watching a Hollywood fairytale, read a book or watch a documentary. Problem with the entire Blacks as slaves, maids and the help is that it’s likely all you see. We are much more than that.
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Bullshit 👎🏾
Fellow white people: No. Just no.
Omg
Watch 13th to remove the blinders and read White Fragility please!!
Sigh
ImTheRealMAGOO Not your Negro or the 13th would have been better selections honestly.
Great, now let's all send trump a pie! VoteByMail Biden2020
I wonder how many errrr ‘certain people’ wish they could go back in time to the era of ‘The Help’ in light of the last few weeks. wishfulthinking blackpeopleasservants
Wtf
No. Just no.
When is the Toussaint L'Oveture movie comin' out?
Uh. I don’t...I just...
Bwahahahahahahahahaha whitesavior movie
I--
Karens. Karens everywhere.
Note to readers: might I suggest “13th” instead? Also on Netflix
(long African American sigh)
Pathetic
Seriously?!?!? Ugh! *smh*
Over Moonlight?! How on earth?
Of all the movies, though
That’s... fucking lame.
I hate this movie. Black women were not centered in it at all, just the white savior archetypes. I'm not sure if people are getting their jollies on black pain or trying to get 'woke'. I believe it's the former. *sigh*
Garbage
Jesus seriously? THIS movie?
This is shade against the movement.
Media: People like dis movie Twitter: This film is racist, worst movie ever, everyone involved in it touches kids.
How about 13THFilm WhenTheySeeUs
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hell naw.
Jesus. White people, no...bad White people.
ugh
Oh my God... 🤦🏻♀️
I'm tired
Not Dear White People or The 13th?
Predictable.
Eat my shit
PrimeVideo has better choices.
🙄🙄🙄
Netflix continuing to come through with the 'this isn't it'
As was Contagion amid coronavirus pandemic
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
No. 🤦🏻
This documentary gutted me. Her experience says so much
Might be a good time for netflix to just make 13th the home screen for a little while.
this is alarming, that movie was terrible
netflix take it down.
Because that's gonna help 😩
That's ok, they'll self correct with greenbook or crash
That’s fucked up.
Why? Were they were too cheap to rent 'Selma'?
I cant roll my eyes enough at this!
This...is not a good thing.
'See? We're the good guys'
Ugh--if you're gonna watch a film about racism, don't watch this white savior nostalgia BS. Watch 'Us' instead. Racism is ugly and current, not some unfortunate quaint habit of an earlier era.
lmfao what are two and 3, Driving miss daisy and green book?
Nodbodys listed the help on the list of Anti-racists resources. Try When they see us, Dear White People, 13th, James Baldwin documentary.
Dear white people, Please watch ava's brilliant documentary '13th' instead. It's on Netflix, too.
They reminiscing on the good old days. When America was “great”.
every single one of them should be required to watch this video afterwards
on the important issues it's time to step up and learn from history, not movies.
We're so dumb.
🤢😬🤢😬
Not a good thing.
Talking about missing the point... 😳
Never seen the movie, but unfortunately I did read the book. Isn't one of the lines, 'Eat my shit?' Everyone making it the most-viewed movie can eat mine.
Movies like 'The Help' are a part of the problem... just throw all of that garbage away and start over...
Whit
This movie (and racist, garbage book) does the complete opposite of amplifying melanated voices. This is the worst movie you could possibly choose.
Do better white people.
Reading the comments but I always thought the movie The Help was a really good movie. I cry every time I watch it. I felt like it gave me an inside look of what it was like for African Americans back then. I will definitely be looking for the other ones suggested though
Cmon fellow wypipo
I clicked on it cause I needed help finding something to watch
infinite_scream we need ya, buddy.
Ok but imagine if that’s what a white person is watching, to try to understand... they are really just starting out. Now, Netflix, is the time to do your part. Deliver the opposite of that YouTube racism rabbit hole. *You might like: an algorithmic ladder outta that hole.*
This is sad
Oh god. That's appalling.
Sweet Jesus.
Good god, no
Watch Hidden Figures...
Try reading Black Like Me. Much better insight. Not Hollywood history.
Always looking to black women for 'help', but ignoring them when they have questions and concerns. We are tired. Fix your own s**t or get left behind.
Dear white people, if we keep making media consumption choices written by white people and in which white people are centred, it is the equivalent of patting ourselves on the back w/o taking responsibility to expand the narratives we hear and it will not lead to growth or change
SPOILER ALERT The story is black women being window dressing in their own stories. Also, I hate the fact the main white character uses the black women for her own gain and then leaves them to deal with the consequences for helping her out. Just awful.
My head hurts
I’ve never seen this movie. I refuse to watch movies where most black people are slaves, maids. Or white people are the saviors of black ppl especially as teachers.
If we really want to get into a discussion of race we all need to watch “The Color of Fear” by Lee Mun Wah.
Whelp
I'm going to be very disappointed if we don't get at least one pie incident from this.
Seems like a good time to point out that the brilliant, gorgeous If Beale Street Could Talk is on Hulu.
Smh.
Lawd aren't they tired of that shit pie yet? Guess not help ya selves LOL
Really? 🤦♀️ ..prime video have gtreat movies and documentaries on now not regarding any help
Uh...
netflix Take it down.
Systemic racism solved! Great job America
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) is timeless. If you cry about the murder of Radio Raheem, then you get it. If you cry about the destruction of Sal's pizzeria, then you don't.
Whet? 😒
Also important to note, it was just added this week and many popular movies that are just added often trend high
That's probably the worst movie to watch to learn anything about Racism/White Supremacy It would be a better use of your ⏰ to hear from people who have studied the system or from White people interviewed by the host UntilJustice listen to the program at
tbh it's a fun movie but it literally didn't cross my mind as something to watch in order to support or understand the history of Black Americans
Idiots
Just watch Watchmen which came out 6 months ago AND IS LITERALLY ABOUT THIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW
This is like watching Armageddon to become an astronaut
oh honey no
Sometimes things are true, and also do not need to be turned into articles.
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Oh no
Oooh that is not a good teaching tool or “help” understanding really.
But it reinforces racist tropes.
Yikes 😳 May I suggest Black Power Mix Tapes? Or Let The Fire Burn
oh no
Was Green Book not available?
🙄
This is some bullshit. excuse me?
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Only because they don't carry Driving Miss Daisy
So clearly there’s more work to do
I hate that movie!
I would suggest Mudbound. Best film of 2017 by far.
I’m not liking our chances people. Let me guess, The Blindside is 2, followed closely by Green Book? Maybe we are done.
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Viola Davis regretted this film because the book was written against her characters real life counterparts wishes. 'It Wasn’t the Voices of the Maids That Were Heard”
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Lollllll
I hate that fucking movie
So slavery?
The Help is entertaining and well acted but reinforces the status quo- which is counter to what so many are out risking their safety and health to fight for now.
....what
I watch the help last night on Netflix
Instead of Green Book-ing your way through it, try these: Just Mercy, When They See Us, 13th, or even Selma. For documentary: Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, Trial By Media (Bernie Goetz) - 🤬 White Savior movies are bandaids over a festering wound.
welp
I can feel the virtue from here
This right here is part of the problem 🤦🏾♀️
Imma need y’all to watch The13thFilm_ okay, the Help is good but the 13th is an education.
White people making things about themselves...again.
At least it's not Green Book
Hit up criterionchannl which is unlocking tons of great black filmmakers.
wow. bad
13TH is right there
Oh, some folks didn't get the memo on that one...
This sucks. netflix strongblacklead stop pushing this it’s the first thing I see when I open Netflix. There are many movies/documentaries in your catalogue that add value to the conversation, and they should be the first thing we see in app
Well that pretty much says it all.
Are white people insa—you know what I left the stove on so—y’all could watch SpikeLeeJoint movies, ava films and series, BarryJenkins movies, Monkeypaw JordanPeele , Kenya Barris, John Singleton, Malcolm D Lee, willpackerprods and you choose THE HELP!!🗣🗣🗣 who raised you?
Nah people watched everything else during quarantine, so they’re moving onto shitty movies now.
I hate here🙄
Not the fucking help 💀
Why? People are being pummeled and abused by the police & folks wanna watch the help!?
The Help, the movie that focused on everybody but the actual Help
Lmao I hate being white sometimes
I watched this yesterday. And I do like the movie. But, it did open up a good discussion with my daughter who was watching with me.
MacdonaldUkah White people are out here overcompensating. 😂
damn, is Green Book not available
Looking for movies about anti-Black racism? Skip The Help. There are far better ones: 13th, Do the Right Thing, Moonlight, Get Out, I am Not Your Negro, Malcolm X, When They See Us, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, etc.
Oof
I nominate Hidden Figures. Although both are great films.
Sweet Jesus help us.
🤦🏻♀️
absolutely terrible movie that fetishises servitude
I think someone has been eating too much pie...
fuck this plane of existence so hard
*throws up*
Check out this piece from 2011 where mesouthgate wrote about 'The Help' and the real truth about the civil rights movement.
infinite_scream
Millie shit in the pie.
Why? 👀
watching a movie is praxis
guarantee every single person who watched that movie voted for buttigieg
Oh dear. 🤦🏻♀️
uhhhhhhhhhhhh
Emotional vomit
who wants to tell them? smh try: 13th or Dear White People or When They See Us or Mudbound or Self Made or Moonlight or Malcolm X or Barry or Becoming or anything other than the help...
Watch 'True Justice' it's free on YouTube. Watch 'Just Mercy', it's free on all streaming platforms. Watch '13th' on netflix Watch 'Who Killed Garrett Philips' on HBO.
We are truly doomed as a nation.
?
Lmao
Wow what an amazing news story!
Us white people need Emma Stone to explain to us that racism is bad.
Figures. Try 13 or I Am Not Your Negro.
Welp. The Help is accurate AF. Could have bedn made about my grandmother in Atlanta. 😡
Maybe check out Criterion for some alternatives
Oh no 🤦🏾♀️
Sounds like over emotional mindless muppets
cc ecareyo
we did it!
any recommendations? looking back to all the movies about race, some were good but still kinda problematic like the help
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If you really care, watch 13th....
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oh no
NOOOOO
Wow this sucks! The 13th is right there? Central Park 5? Doing Time?
Oy. oy
Oh FFS
'Eat my shit!!'
Yikes
While The Help has a compelling storyline and dynamite performances, it does have a major flaw . . .
I...ummm wypipo...WTEF? Ya'll never seem to disappoint
Well, this is a particularly grotesque bit of entertainment news. 😬
I guess that’s a start...but how about ava ‘s WhenTheySeeUs , 13th, Selma, & QueenSugar
Its probably 1 cause they are forcing it on you....after i was done binge watching a series it automatically started playing the help right after...i didn't pick to watch it.
Because is all there, ALL there. Terrible times, some people would love to go back to that but it was terrible and disgusting.
One of all time favorite movies
LMAO.
Fantastic film!!
We all want to be serving Trump a shit pie
There is a documentary in YouTube and Prime video called Finding Justice that is quite eye opening. It’s never too late to learn and try to be part of the solution.
Seriously TheHelp makes me cry every time I see it. Amazing film and book.
As much as I love this movie, there are much better options if you want to educate yourself about racism
The Help is a masterpiece, it deserves all the recognition.
Watch 'For Mercy' streaming FREE right now-Amazon Prime & other Platforms I think, 2C what it's like to be wrongly accused & stuffed in a Death Row Cell/how they R defended by a very courageous atty. W/ Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson & other greats. Based/true story.
Isn't too much like the 'Green Book' that everyone complains about? Although I adore Viola and Octavia. I'd watch them in everything!
watch 13th & When They See Us directed by ava instead
Ok but they also need to stream The Butler and Blackkklansman!!! They are so great, also Hidden Figures 😢
If it annoys Entertainment Weekly, I am all for it.
13th from ava would be a much better film to watch
Would be better if it was a movie that didn't have the white saviour narrative, but at least it's a start....
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