The Butler

 

The Butler is a truly inspiring film that exercises the true story of Cecil Gaines, a slave turned house servant following the death of his father. As he grows, so does his want to leave the cotton farm he's grown up on. Cecil leaves in search of a new job in a new place, after years of work in a high end D.C. hotel, he finds the white house calling asking for his service in the most important home in the country.

Cecil finds himself giving more attention to the first families that come and go then his own. Combined with the danger his son is in while fighting for African American rights, Cecil Gaines( Forest Whitaker) has lost sight of what he might believe. I give the butler 3 and 1/2 out of 4 stars. The whole cast showed how versatile and entrenched each became in their characters. Although my only criticism is the way the film presented himself, it was emotional and true to its roots, but I will say that I feel I didn't connect with whitaker's character the way I wanted to. Not to Forest Whitaker's blame, but to that of the story, I felt the movie was less connected to the characters and more to the civil rights movement, but this is just me being picky.