Help me, Mon.

Ayy yo,

Yeah I know I've been away for quite a while, but trust me when I tell ya that I was getting my Jesus on, ya know: mending fences, saving shoe soles, and pouring water onto winoes, when it dawned on me that I needed some time for myself.  So while I was away I checked out a movie called The Help.

Now far be it for me to just up and mosh up a film with two superb African-American female leads as this one has, each actress so deserving of their own individual Academy Awards, but I got to tell ya that there were some things in that film that made me want to fly straight to Hollyweird and start busting corporate movie exec heads 'up in here.'  First of all, (in my 10 year old hood voice) "Why come we gotta be subjected to only period pieces where black folks have to re-perfect the dreaded lost art of bowing and scraping before we get treated to some first-class cinematography and superior acting?"  Yeah, yeah... I agree both Monsters Ball and Training Day were artistically good films and both won major awards respectively, but I say look at the body of work both Halle and Denzel turned in prior to these two and you can truly appreciate that surprised look that both of them had when their names were announced as winners.  (

I WHOLE HEARTEDLY AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Youse a fool! I was disappointed to see Mrs ****ly in that role too, but maybe it was the hazel contacts that threw me off.

But if you read the book and not just saw the movie, you'd realize the story was originally pretty much from Skeeter's POV-the black 'help' were just a back drop.

IMO Ms Viola Davis has had some better roles, but this is the one that will really get her noticed.