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I agree with you Sandra. I was more moved by the book. I guess it's hard to condense in a movie.
I liked the movie but LOVED the book. Somethings you just cannot translate from word to the screen and I think it was sanitized a bit. Disappointed with the scene when the little girl uses a toilet in the front garden and not the maid's as was in the book. She used the maid's because she would never have watched her own mother use the "inside" toilet but probably watched Aibileen use her "outside" one. That was the shocking part.
I agree. The film was good, but I was so disappointed in the end when Aibileen was fired, but the film didn't show that she got Skeeter's job at the newspaper, a big step up in her life. And Constantine's story was vital to understanding the heartbreaking realities of the racism of the times. I generally liked the casting choices, but Skeeter's mother (in the film) overcame her native racism way too completely. In the book, she never really understood how hideous that kind of racism is, nor did she come to any kind of understanding of what Constantine went through.
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I agree with you Sandra. I was more moved by the book. I guess it's hard to condense in a movie.
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I liked the movie but LOVED the book. Somethings you just cannot translate from word to the screen and I think it was sanitized a bit. Disappointed with the scene when the little girl uses a toilet in the front garden and not the maid's as was in the book. She used the maid's because she would never have watched her own mother use the "inside" toilet but probably watched Aibileen use her "outside" one. That was the shocking part.
I agree. The film was good, but I was so disappointed in the end when Aibileen was fired, but the film didn't show that she got Skeeter's job at the newspaper, a big step up in her life. And Constantine's story was vital to understanding the heartbreaking realities of the racism of the times. I generally liked the casting choices, but Skeeter's mother (in the film) overcame her native racism way too completely. In the book, she never really understood how hideous that kind of racism is, nor did she come to any kind of understanding of what Constantine went through.
