That was an excellent one.

Let's be realistic.

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A historic reminder that no 1 person is more important than another and there's many ways to win a battle.

This movie is full of bologna. Anyone raving about this is a puppet of propaganda and enjoys the re-write and false representations of actual and historical events.

In a time of segregation, we see America through the eyes of a black man who served as a butler in the white house for many decades. While working alongside the world's most powerful men, this butler suffers the injustice of being black and being underpaid. Not even in the white house, being black means equality. Meanwhile, his family breaks down as their son grows up to fight and join the black panthers and spends most of his life in and out of prison fighting for the rights of black citizens. This is key in the movie, as we see inside the same family, a completely different way of approaching the social injustices of America. More than wondering if the Butler is going to have a decent life as a servant in the white house, we are made to wonder if Father and son will one day see America with the same eyes. I was not expecting a lot from this movie, but I actually liked it a lot. Recommended!

The movie was about a man who grew up in the south on a cotton field with his mother and father David Banner (Earl Gaines) and Mariah Carey (Hattie Pearl) both played the roles. Forest Whittaker was the Butler, Cecil Gaines. He got out of the south by his skills he learned from being a house slave, diner servant, and then became hotel bell boy/bus boy. He was scouted out by a man who seen his skills was fit for the White House. Being a butler in the white house he took with so much pride. Butler went through over 3 decades of president's administrations he seen firsthand what was happening with America and how it was changing forever. He had a wife and two sons; wife was Oprah Winfrey (Gloria Gaines) and sons were David Oyelowo (Louis Gaines) and Isaac White (Charlie Gaines). The theme of the movie was cultural, political, historic, and slow due to the story telling element. With the theme being political there was displaying of decisions and executive orders each president did for the country. Like how President Kennedy made it legal for all colors and races to eat and drink at the same locations and fountains. With Cecil's son being one of the "freedom riders" (group which was similar to the black lives matter movement currently) they tried to make a difference culturally for America. Anytime Cecil was at a high time or point in his life the camera angles were high and the lighting was bright. Anytime he was at a low point the camera angles and lighting were low and dim. For instance when Cecil helped get the black help's pay raised he was talking to the head engineer. The Head engineer looked at him lowly so the angle and light was low but after he told him the president said to take it up with him and he ran into the First lady the camera angle was high as he was praised for his accomplishment by her.