Late Review

So after seeing the movie The Help, staring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard, a total of 3 times, I was angry, pissed but mostly happy with the end production.  I cried. I laughed.  I left the theater with that “awwww, look at us getting along” feeling.  Kumbaya.

Then I read the book.  Just finished it this morning.  I am irritated.  I was so “proud” of the movie.  This was my people.  My great great grand parents, people I will never know.  But every now and then I get a glimpse of them in movies like this and I am proud.  With this movie I get an inkling of just what the South is all about. 

After angrily slapping each page down as I turned them, and throwing the book across the room, I decided the movie was TOTALLY watered down.  To the point of pissing me off.

The screenplay was written to give these women redeeming qualities they did not deserve.  If you can pity them then hating what they stood for and believed in isn’t as hard.  I don’t understand Hollywood's continuous cinematic slap in the face when it comes to telling the whole story.  It’s like they have a formula to follow to make sure the viewing public wont be “too upset” at the individuals in the movie when they damn well should be upset. 

It is truly insulting. The book has numerous themes of forgiveness woven through it and faith in God as did the movie but I just wish……just once, the ending wasn’t happy.  Just once, someone would just tell the truth and let the viewing public decide for themselves.

So to me the movie was a Southern MISS.  The book was a HIT.

Therefore, I decided what I will do is post up the book I have been editing going on 10+ years.  Just as long as my grandmother has been writing it.  Maybe even longer.  We have been through so much with her book. She has lost the entire book on the PC at least twice.

I have always told her this book will probably be made into a movie one day.  I don’t know but I think it is important to give her words eyes.  So they can be seen and read.   Each week I will post up a little something from the book and seek out your comments and suggestions. 

I hope for honesty.