Perfect for black history month

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2014)

I don't think i have ever seen a slave movie that just makes you want to cry and be thankful for your ancestors as this movie did. Roots maybe one of those type of things that will hit you soulfully but i think this movie takes the cake. Nothing in this movie is sugar coded everything is raw and brutal from the marvelous score from Hans Zimmer one of my favorite composers to a great performance by every person in this movie. Chiwetel plays Solomon Northrup is a free man who is kidnapped by these Con Artist and sold as a slave, thats the premise now if you read that wouldn't that make you upset and thats what a good movie does to make you feel all the emotion in the character like Solomon this is a guy who is very smart and intelligent and has to live as a slave for 12 years taken away from his own free family. I mean i can go on and on about this movie i loved it in every way and I want it to win if not best picture at the Oscars then at the golden globes. And one more thing Michael Fassbender as a slave owner is phenomenal if you thought Calvin Candy was despicable in Django Unchained then wait till you see him i would recommend everyone to see this movie for black history month so you can appreciate life and the struggles you face now are no where even close to what your ancestors had to face.