Happiness is a feeling that takes little to get but very hard to keep, and it's also something that many never achieve.
Actually it's the best thing in life, because otherwise, why would we live? To suffer?
Happiness consists of three things: having always something to do, having someone to love and something to expect. Never getting locked inside oneself and get isolated from the rest of the world, because there will always be someone who wants you to be happy.
It's posible to be happy with just a 'hello', with a smile, with a look, watching a view, watching someone else grow up and get by, Little things but big at the same time.
Life goes on and realising about that makes you happy too, and there can be people who make you live life happily.
Sometimes you get sad, you are sorry and you want everything to stop, but you can't do anything to stop the time. Happiness, however, can be the strength that helps you take the best in every situation and make things go on.
'THE HELP': or how Power will leave you for someone better.
The issue of power is shown from different points of view in this
movie. Power here is shown very clearly as something that not
everybody can have at the same time, like a force that passes from
one person to another when people don't do the right things:
-From the point of view of racist white people in Southern towns
of the USA (Hilly, e.g.), they have a lot of power on black people, treating them
nearly as slaves, telling lies about them (such as that the black
people carry a lot of deseases and so they can't use the same toilets
as white people) or deciding if their black servants can continue
working or not, with no social security.
-The power of non-racist white people in the same environment,
such as Skeeter, the young journalist who writes the book telling all the
truth about racism in her town but changing the names of real people,
and this is the beginning of the end of the problem,
a bit like
the Horse of Troy.
-The power of the Media and Literature, and the people related to
them, such as the journalist's editor, who is a very powerful and
sophisticated woman who knows that polemic books make a lot of noise.
When the book is published, people around the nation get to know the
reality in Southern cities in the USA, which is not very different to
the nineteenth century, when having slaves in the Southern states was
legal.
- The power of surprise, in cases such as when Minny, the black maid,
gives a cake cooked with her faeces to Hilly, the evil young housewive, or
when Skeeter lets a mistake in Hilly's
advertisement and so her garden is ruined with toilet pots.
- The power of gossip in small towns. Like a monster that destroys
everything it has protected before, gossip makes the servants don't
want to work for Celia, or makes Skeeter's mother dismiss her daughter's black nanny, Constantine, but gossip is
also what makes racist white people keep their mouths shut and a low
profile when the book becomes famous.
-The power of black people and, generally, of opressed people:
let's not forget that the current President of the USA, is black, and
the movie is a homage not only for him but for all the black people
who suffered terribly in United States due to racism.
- The power of the spectator, and the power of cinema itself. This
does not appear in the film, it is implied, but this movie is one of
those films that make people talk about it and support it against
racism.
