d was a sense of humor. When Skeeter s mother put on a wig and asked: «Is it a little too young?» Skeeter answered: «It sa little too everything». Aibileen - to the question of a child why she was black - answered: «Because I drink too much coffee». Hilly and her friends could not boast of a sense of humor - as «good» women they were supposed to listen to their men joking and admire this ability.can see some other issues important for Americans which were touched upon in the movie, for example , the issue of homosexuality. In the 1960s the LGBT movement only began to make progress and homosexuality was yet just a subculture. When Skeeter s mother said to Eugenia: «Recently I ve read some girls begin to get unbalanced, have some unnatural thought. Do you ... find men attractive? Are you having unnatural thoughts about girls and women? »Skeeter found her words completely crazy. Their conversation proves that at that time homosexuality was still considered abnormal. I think that this attitude is similar to what we now have in Russia - most of Russians still do not welcome itm it up, the movie «The help» mostly concerns the problems of discrimination against the rights of minorities, which have always been acute in the USA. The fact that discrimination of minorities, especially African-Americans, had been taking place in America for centuries, has always seemed strange to me, because one of the basic American values ??is freedom, and discrimination basically means limiting someone s freedom. Moreover, discrimination of African Americans did not have any solid grounds, it was inherently unfair, but it was a standard, at least in the South. And those people, who dared fight against it, risked everything, including their lives. So, in the movie we see quite an accurate picture of the 1960-s: a conservative, traditional background and a few bright individuals in the forefront who were changing the tradition and building a new history with new standards which would protect the inalienable human rights of every person.
