It’s adept at showing how the slavers’ hateful descriptions of their victims are more than simply demeaning.
Can you think of any black actresses under 30 who are headlining films? Take your time.
The poster knows its movie’s milieu, its genre, and its character’s superficial appetite for, well, everything.
The Help represents a pitiful lack of progress, and that’s hardly an indictment of the ways its characters and events are depicted on screen.
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