Written by Danny Strong (HBO's excellent «Recount» and «Game Change»), «The Butler» cheerfully abandons specific reality, with its main characters — Cecil Gaines (Whitaker), his wife Gloria (Winfrey) and their son Louis (Oyelowo)-- crafted as composites to allow a wide swath of history to fit tidily into one family's tumultuous story. (orlandosentinel.com)
This series presents an abstract vision, but this abstraction is actually derived from a very specific reality, one rooted not only in the artist's suspicion of the division between concrete and abstract, but also in his unique perspective on reality and value, which also presents as a release of the artist's self - awareness. (pacegallery.com)
But a generalization does not lessen the specific reality. (nakedpastor.com)