Lee Daniels' The Butler [Priced-down Reissue]

[Machine Translation] He was watching: a black butler who served seven presidents. The Untold Story of the Center of the World (White House). Released at a new affordable price! (Full length disc only) From Lee Daniels, the Oscar-winning director of "Precious," comes the story of a black butler who served seven presidents in the White House and his family's struggle with the turbulence of America and the times. Based on a true story, this is a moving human spectacle. --Cecil Gaines was born a slave in a cotton field, became an apprentice, then a hotel boy, and finally was recruited to be a butler at the White House. The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War...America was in a period of great upheaval. Cecil continues to work faithfully, watching history in motion from the front lines. As a black man, and with the pride he has acquired as a butler, he continues to work faithfully. Apart from his wife, who understands this, his eldest son is ashamed of his father's work and throws himself into the anti-government movement to fight for his country. Contrary to his brother, the second son chooses to fight for his country and volunteers to go to Vietnam. Cecil, a husband and father at the center of the world, is at the mercy of that world, along with his family. What did he see at the center of the world? And what was the reason for the tears he shed at the end of his life?

彼は見ていた。7人の大統領に仕えた黒人執事。世界の中心〈ホワイトハウス〉の知られざる物語。お求めやすい新価格でリリース! (本編ディスクのみ)『プレシャス』でアカデミー賞に輝いた監督リー・ダニエルズが、ホワイトハウスで7人の大統領に仕えた黒人執事から見る揺れ動くアメリカと時代に翻弄される家族の物語を描く! 実話に基づく、感動のヒューマン・スペクタクル。――綿花畑の奴隷として生まれたセシル・ゲインズは、見習いからホテルのボーイとなり、遂には、ホワイトハウスの執事にスカウトされる。キューバ危機、ケネディ暗殺、ベトナム戦争・・・、アメリカが大きく揺れ動いていた時代。セシルは、歴史が動く瞬間を、最前で見続けながら、忠実に働き続ける。黒人として、そして、身につけた執事としての誇りを胸に。そのことに理解を示す妻とは別に、父の仕事を恥じ、国と戦うため、反政府運動に身を投じる長男。兄とは逆に、国のために戦う事を選び、ベトナムへ志願する次男。世界の中枢にいながらも、夫であり父であったセシルは、家族と共に、その世界に翻弄されていく。彼が世界の中心で見たものとは? そして人生の最後に流した、涙の理由とは・・・。