I used to come across this movie advert so many times that I never bothered how good it was. I couldn't even stand the hype around it. After the semester lessons about conflicts, racism, gender and whole lots of other social inequalities, those reminded me about the movie. So I decided to watch it.
The movie is sets in the 1960s in Jackson town, Mississippi, tells about racism between colored people and the whites. The main point is related to a would-be writer, Skeeter Phelan who writes a book secretly about the racism and unequal treatments of the black people on their sides of perspective. So she convinces two black housekeepers, Aibileen and Minny, and then following a dozen other more housemaids together to work on her book. Skeeter wants the maids to reveal anonymously about their hardships routinely inflicted on them by the wealthy white families whose food they cook and the children they raise - thereby winning them a valuable step towards true racial equality and her a big fat publishing deal.
One example of discrimination we can see through out the movie is Hilly Holbrook's ongoing campaign for the town's maids to use separate bathrooms from their employers because the fear of the blacks to pass on diseases. However, there was one hilarious scene which really drew a deep impression on me when Minny tried to get even with her employer. As she was found out by her employer Hilly Holbrooks, of she using the in-house bathroom had landed her fired, Minny baked a chocolate pie with feces in it as her fake apology. Hilly was so indulged in the pie and even gave praise the pie Minny made before she finally told by Minny that the pie was made from her own feces. Then Hilly felt the content of the bowels came back up in her throat (nauseous!). HA HA!