"The White House Butler": The History of the Blood and Tears of the Gold-Plated Black Slaves

I have to say that the American theme was filmed like this, which is really embarrassing. The whole movie almost starts from the first act of a white man who casually rapes a female black slave. The black guy who escaped grew up and experienced all kinds of unfair treatment. With excellent service standards, he even entered the White House and became a senior waiter. However, the rise in value did not prevent the unfortunate arrival. The child was arrested by the white man in prison for no reason. He stood beside the president and listened to the unfair policy against the black people. The son died in the Vietnam battlefield. The president is in power, and I have heard and witnessed countless events, both large and small. Everything in the past 20 years, until the end of the film, is constantly telling about the injustices and tragic feelings of black people in a white-dominated world.

If it is just a simple history of black blood and tears, it is still enough to be thought-provoking. It is embarrassing that, in the segment of less than 5 minutes at the end, regardless of the tragic foreshadowing and the glory of hard work, Obama abruptly inserted into Obama's high-end speech on the concept of democracy. For a while, the audience who entered the play couldn't remember what the situation was. Could it be that the experiences of black people all stem from "democracy"? Or did the United States have democracy only after Obama was elected president in 2008? Beginning the glorious road to democracy? Could it be that after a long time of trouble, the universal values ​​of the United States for so many years are all nonsense? What the hell is this situation? Maybe only the screenwriter can understand the real inner core. However, on the Metacritic website, The New Yorker, which rated the film only 60 points, still saw the clue, and commented in one sentence: "The Butler is a lightweight, didactic movie, a kind of well-produced. high-school entertainment." Yes! It's really lightweight, didactic, and well-crafted entertainment. Want to see the real American civil rights movement in it, as the 40-point Guardian put it, "...doesn't even come close." It doesn't come close at all.

Of course, insight does not necessarily become a mainstream voice, and sometimes risks being suppressed. Under the advocacy led by the "New York Times" which scored 100 points, although the comprehensive score is 66 points, which is barely passable, it will still make the film a popular film in the Oscars. Even the nonsense ending of "Escape from Tehran" can win the best picture, and this film modified according to the timeline of real events, it is easy to enter the best screenwriter. No matter how bad it is, Forest Whitaker's time-travelling acting skills can also compete with Tom Hanks in "Captain Phillips". In any case, this film will win a place in the Oscars, because this is the main theme of others. Just like "Legend of No. 42", it is obviously an inspirational story of black people, but it often ends up being a praise of white people. No way, this is the real America.

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