I've held this movie hostage for a few weeks on Netflix. I finally took the time to see it. I really enjoyed it. I'm sorry to everyone else who has it on their movie queue.
It struck home about a butler who wastes his life to the old English belief of service as a perfect butler. What I found so interesting was that the butler used his devotion to his service as a shield to both romantic notions or difficult questions that would pry the butler from his robot-like devotion to an empty life.
I've seen a lot of comedians do the same thing with the phase, "just kidding" to protect others or themselves. We all remember dodge ball.
It's just sometimes you don't know how cruel it can be avoiding the hard parts of your life. The trap is you devote yourself to a role you think people will accept more. You keep using your old lines feeling comfortable and it works for a while. But after time, you find yourself in a scene long after your promised exit - feeling very much out of place fearing others may suffer from your mistakes you keep making.
