This is a moving chronicle of a semi-fictionalized White House butler as seen through the civil rights movement. It has a fantastic montage (or maybe more like a series of intercut scenes) of the black staff at the White House and the Freedom Riders in Alabama.
How can anyone believe what comes out of Hollywood? When a movie starts out "Inspired By"; that means it's either fiction (lies) or propaganda.
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.
I should say that "The Butler" is not a masterpiece. Parts of it seem a little milquetoast.
As a young boy, Cecil Gaines picked cotton with his parents. One day, the plantation owner rapes his mother and then kills his father.
I appreciate the movies which show aspects of the life style of societies which have been swept under the carpet by the spokesmen of these societies, in an attempt to hide the ugly aspects of their life style. I appreciate because it's a way of paying the due tribute to the building values of civilization and humanism.
