12 Years a Slave | Movie Review

        12 Years a Slave 

directed by Steve McQueen
based on Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong´o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Alfre Woodard
released on November 8, 2013
genres: biography, drama, history


Solomon Northup is a free African-American man who is kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841, and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations in the state of Luisiana for twelve years before his release.


My thoughts

So, where do I start? This movie..... yeah.
Okay, so I was very curios what was do movie about. I watched the oscars, and it becme the best movie of the year, so I thought, it must be good. And it was awesome!
So let´s start at te beginning. I...... I don´t know what to say, because words can´t describe what I saw. It was so heartbreaking and sad, I cried so many times. I didn´t cry just because the slaves had some bad scenes, but because I was thinking about it, and while watching the movie, you realize, that it really happened. That slaves really were like animals, and they couldn´t do anything about it. And this especially made me cry.
At first start with Chiwetel. He is an amazing actor. What he did, was incredible. Even know, you cry almost

the whole film, you enjoy it. But I have to start, there were some scenes, that were a bit too long. I think I count 3, maybe 4. Like there was a scene when you see Solomon breathing after a fight I think, and it lasts for 3 minutes. Like WHAT? Or we watch the water for 2-3 minutes. Why? And the best one, when Solomon is almost killed, he is hanging on a rope, and a) nobody cares, they don´t even help him, and b) the scene is 4 minutes long! Like, okay, I got it in the first 2 minutes, I don´t need 2 more! But, as I was saying in the beginning, this movie was incredible, and so was Chiwetel.

Then, there was Lupita. Such an amazing actor. The scenes that she had..... omg. Patsey. Patsey is a very ambitious young lady, but she has a terrible life. She and Solomon, and a lot of other people work on a plantage. Patsey works the most. She picked 500 pounds of cotton every day. The avarage for men was 200. Can you think about how strong she had to be? But, that´s not it. Mister Epps (Michael Fassbender)
loves her, but his wife hates her. There are a few scenes, that you cry. She hits her so much, that you can feel her pain even before she felts it. She has such a heartbreaking

story. I felt terrible for her.

I got this from mistress Shaw. Mrs Epps won´t even grab me no soap to clean with. I stink so much, I make myslef gag. 500 pounds of cotton. Day in and day out. More than any man here. And for that I will be clean. That´s all I ask.

I was in tears........ and there were a couple of scenes when I cried too. This is a film worth watching. If you haven´t watched it yet, you should. You should.

I apologize for my appearance. But I have had a difficult time these past several years.

My rating: