Director: Steve McQueen
Screenwriter: John Ridley
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Giamatti, Scoot McNairy, Lupita Nyong’o, Adepero Oduye, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams, Alfre Woodard, Chris Chalk, Taran Killam, Bill Camp
Genre: Drama MPAA
Rating: R (for violence/cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality)
12 Years a Slave is an incredibly moving emotional movie based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup , a free black man from upstate New York, is sadly abducted and sold unfortunately into slavery. He faces cruelty , as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggle to stay alive and to retain his dignity along side other slaves. In the twelfth year of his struggle ,Solomon meets with a Canadian abolitionist and this meeting will forever change his life.Its weird that Brad Pitt appears in this movie towards almost the end when we are so used to him playing lead roles and roles that last from the start to the end of a movie. But i am glad he was given an honorable role like he is in real life.He plays a person who cares about humanity.
I am not a huge fun of slave movies because they are just too sad ,i do not like watching movies about human suffering. Slave movies drain me emotionally especially black mans slavery because i am African. The actors did a job on this one plus everyone else involved. The actress Lupita Nyong'o won an Oscar for her role as a slave girl. She made Kenya proud and Africa proud as well, who knew history would be made that way. I had seen her acting before in a local production and she was good. I cant wait to see her take up other roles. Lupitas father is a famous politician here in Kenya and so her last name is very familiar to Kenyans and almost everyone who has heard about the movie, many Kenyans have watched 12 years of a slave just to see her act.
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