Read a real history book instead of this BS propaganda

Rating: 1/10 (16 November 2014)

First of all, I'd like to say, sorry to the other movies nominated for movie of the year that lost to this horrid piece of propaganda bull. You were all wrongfully denied, by reviewers that gave it the movie of the year nomination without even seeing it. As the popular saying goes with this movie now: "You're a racist if you don't like this movie".
Well, if that is the case, call me a racist. The movie itself had promises of telling an accurate portrayal of a free victim who had his freedom taken away; from his family and everything he has ever known. There was some glimmering promises that could have made this a decent movie, but as soon as those events happened, the propaganda would start over again; ruining the original point given.
The acting by the supporting cast is at best lackluster. They acted as if every white person in this movie was hell bent on torturing blacks or was just a complete moron; unaware of what was going on around the time. A fact that was never mentioned in the movie either; over 80% of the population in the south never owned a slave. I guess they wanted to portray the 20% as the majority.
The first owner of Solomon was portrayed as supposedly a 'good man', but obviously lacked of any intelligence. Even with the unbelievable sophistication and knowledge Solomon showed, the owner still would not believe he was anything but a slave when Solomon told him he was not. I don't know if it was the overacting of Solomon's character or what, but there is no way a pure slave during that time period would possess those abilities; let alone having someone dumb enough not to notice that fact. And don't even get me started that the slave owner was doing him a 'favor' by sending him off to an owner that was referred to as a 'slave breaker'.
After that, the movie continues to get worse for the next hour or so as it is just basically a white person continuously beating on a black person for one reason or another.
Near the end of the movie, Solomon meets a decent white person; but alas he's from Canada (as there is no such thing as a decent white person in the south supposedly...) played by Brat Pitt. He gets Solomon's letter out and eventually the authorities come and free Solomon. The movie ends with a couple lines saying that Solomon goes to trial over the events that happen but loses due to an 'all white congress'.
If you want to learn about black history and what happened during the times of slavery, this movie is not the place to go to. Find a proper history book and learn for yourself instead of this director's skewed view of events that transpired then.