Believe me; it was immensely engaging and engrossing from the very start.
The film tells about a white journalism graduate Skeeter and how she dared to go against the law then, to write a controversial book about maids in the town of Jackson in the race-torn state of Mississippi in early 1960s.
Starring the beautiful Emma Stone, the dramatic Viola Davis, the wonderful Octavia Spencer, and Bryce Dallas Howard as the socialite bitch, Hilly; this movie gives you a very up close 'feel' of the turbulent times of powerlessness of the coloured people, the bitchiness of the Southern whites, the apartheid policy in full swing and the wrath of the Klux Klux Clan.
On balance, it is a sweet and bitter song of the south but it has a better feel than 'The Colour Purple', a great movie of yesteryear.
Enjoy the movie especially the witty dialogue.
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