The Evil of Slavery

Rating: 9/10 (18 October 2015)

12 years a slave is a movie which should be seen by everyone not for the amazing performance of its cast nor for the heartbreaking story of Solomon Northup. No it should be seen to remember how we, the human kind can be so monstrous and evil towards each other.
Unfortunately still today, slavery is still present and this is a shame in this world today that such evil practice is still going on.
It is also making you feel ashamed of being American, a citizen of a country which ways of life and thinking is based on freedom and equality. Knowing that we needed a bloody war which tore us apart for 4 years to end Slavery is really giving you chills.
Through Solomon Northup, Steve McQueen is telling us the story of hundred of thousands men, women and children who saw their freedom and dignity brutally taken away by evil men who considered them as property and never as human beings. There are scenes who will literally break your hearts and hurt your feelings like the one where Solomon and other black people were sold to their future masters. When you see this woman getting separated of her children then checked and treated like a beast is sickening but it was the truth and it needed to be shown. Or this poor young woman who is whipped and tortured by the jealous wife of her owner.
Slavery is evil and it is hard to understand how we could be such despicable monsters.
So yes this movie is necessary for memory and to make sure that such evil will never be practiced again. That is why I gave it a 9 for the lesson which should never be forgotten.