REVIEW MOVIE “THE HELP”
1. INTRODUCTION
Film is one of the many forms of mass media that are able to provide entertainment value to the
public when the fatigue of community activities in carrying out the routine of daily life. Film acts
as a means of communication used to spread entertainment that presents stories, events, music,
drama, humor and other technical presentations to the general public (Sumarno, 1996: 13). Film
is often used as a socialization tool or as a medium to construct certain discourses for public
consciousness.
Film is the actualization of the development of people's lives in its time. From time to time films
have developed, both from the technology used and the themes raised. After all, the film has
captured a number of cultural elements behind it. In the setting of industrial society, the
development of films that are circulated is largely influenced by the needs of the audience
market, where the themes raised in films are not far from stories that revolve around populist
problems. The setting of the populist film theme cannot be separated from the spirit of the
industry that demands the appeal of as many audiences as possible, so it is not uncommon for
some story themes of industrial films to have a story spirit that is easily digested by the audience,
and does not heed ethical and conflict issues that require a lot of reason or knowledge that is
difficult to digest.
Film as a medium of communication, is a combination of efforts to convey verbal and non-verbal
messages through moving images, with the use of camera technology, color and sound where
these elements are backgrounded by the director to the film audience or in other words film is a
communication medium that carries a content of messages to the audience to provide new
discourse with various meanings that filmmakers want to convey to the public, because with the
existence of film media the form of communication described can be carried out in depth and
