The Butler (2013)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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

Lee Daniels', the Butler, is an amazing film that includes the right amount of playful banter to make it a light-hearted civil rights film, rather than a bash on racial segregation. The cinematography of this movie helps speak to the audience, evoking the emotions felt in the actual times of the civil rights movement. The graininess of the movie's quality adds to the mood, where it makes us feel poor and insubstantial, almost like African-Americans back then. In my opinion, it does a very good job explaining what things were like back then, and how they evolved with new presidents. It is interesting to start the movie in the late 1800's and move throughout time up until the late 70's. This film teaches about bigotry in an entertaining, yet mellow way where it does not feel like a racial attack or mockumentary. Overall, I highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes documentaries but cannot stand the basic, boring commentated kind.

Since this movie is considered "loosely based" on the story of a man who was a White House butler, it should say so at the beginning. There are other ways to share the story of the fight for civil rights, there is no need to make up a false past about a real person. Why couldn't we just see the true story of Eugene Allen? I'm sure that story would have been interesting enough. I appreciate the need to tell the world about the fight for civil rights, but that should not have been done at the expense of a great and factual account of the interesting life of Eugene Allen.

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. Unfortunately this is both although such a person did exist but since Hollywood is a propaganda machine for Democrats = Progressives = Communists it seems it is impossible to trust the film industry when a movie is advertised as truth to make money when it is something else. Research Eugene Allen who is the real person that this movie is "loosely" telling his story. Also what is interesting although the acting was great and the movie was about racism; some of the actors are racists and the President they worship is a racist.