Even if you have mixed feelings about The Help, there’s a good reason to applaud the film’s success. Supposedly, it’s confirmed the box office viability of a radical new genre: “Chick flicks” with a bit of substance.
Mixed feelings?! “Chick flicks with a bit of substance”?! Yeah, if by substance you mean uncritical White Supremacy, yes. Who writes this? And more importantly, what exactly is the purpose of such shallow commentary?!
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