Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave
Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Director: Steve McQueen
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson
Rating: 
12
Years a Slave is one of the best movies ever made on American slavery.
British director Steve McQueen has succeeded in bringing on celluloid
the pain of slavery in every single scene of the film. It's an
adaptation of the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup. Must I add that it's
very brave of Brad Pitt to produce this one.
It's a story of
someone who was not known at all and slavery was something that was not
known to him till he was picked up. This is the story of Solomon Northup
(Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free citizen of the United States who lived a
normal life in New York with his wife and children.
Director
Steve McQueen poses with the award for Best Motion Picture, Drama for
his film 12 Years a Slave backstage at the 71st annual Golden Globe
Awards in Beverly Hills, California on January 12, 2014.
Reuters
Reuters
He
receives a two-week music job offer from two unknown men. Next we see
that Northup is captured, chained in a prison cell and sold by
slave-trader Theophilus Freeman (Paul Giamatti) to the plantation owner
William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch). He is named Platt and thus begins
his journey as a slave-he will live in the worst conditions and will be
tortured and humiliated each time he protests.
Now he has to
not just get out of there but also get rid of the identity as he is
renamed Platt, a runaway slave from Georgia. The path is as tough as one
could imagine. The fact that such practices existed in a democratic
nation is proof of how the power has been misused time and again.
British
actor Chiwetel Ejiofor gets into the skin of the character and delivers
an outstanding performance. There aren't that many dialogues for him
but his expressions do most of the talking.
Backed by a good
producer like Pitt, Steve McQueen delivers a masterpiece. 12 Years a
Slave deserves every bit of praise that it has got so far.
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