The Butler Movie Download

9 / 10

The Civil Rights Movement!
Lee Daniel’s The Butler is an excellent, powerful film about a black man who served his country in times of racial trouble. The film is about the tension between blacks and whites and how the Civil Rights Movement changed the world for the better as equality is promoted. The film is strikingly powerful in every way and my only complaint is regarding the choppy editing. But the large ensemble cast is fantastic and so is the screenplay. People may perceive this film as propaganda, and I believe it is. But this is propaganda telling the world that everyone is equal, not just the white folks.

Inspired by true events, Lee Daniel’s film is about a man named Cecil Gaines who became one of the butlers of the White House, serving seven Presidents. We learn his story from when his family worked as sharecroppers to his rise as a domestic servant to his new job at the White House to his marriage of Gloria and how his son risked his life as a member of the Black Panthers.

The acting is fantastic, especially for a gigantic cast featured in the film. Forest Whittaker does an excellent job as Cecil, who wants to keep his family alive during the movement. Oprah does a good job and it’s her best role since 1985’s The Color Purple. The supporting cast is just too big to list everyone individually. But the stand outs were Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, and David Oyelowo as Gaine’s son, Louis.

Overall, this is an excellent, moving film about a very traumatizing time in our American history. Granted this film may have several noteworthy historical inaccuracies, but on the inside, the film goes a whole lot bigger than the life of one man. It speaks for an entire race pledging for their freedom and equal rights. It’s a very sad movie as we see the life these people go though and how they fight to achieve their goal of being equal. As a white man, I am very appalled what these people had to go through and I am ashamed of the bad treatment. This film nearly moved me to tears, especially when we got to the end. I rate this film 9/10.Read More