Everybody deserves not just to survive but to live.

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2015)

I have seen many movies about slavery but none of them have explored it to this extent. Some of the parts of the movie that really touched me were the one in which the slaves sang the song "Roll Jordan Roll" and the part in which Solomon was reunited with his family, the score composed by Hans Zimmer playing in the background almost made me cry. I've seen two previous movies of Steve McQueen "Hunger" and "Shame", both of them explore struggles of men at a critical level, the first one is about the Irish hunger strike in the prisons of Ireland a.k.a "The Troubles" and the latter being the exploration of the sex addiction of an New York executive who is later joined by his sister who is also struggling in life from being unemployed and other social factors. McQueen went on to win the CamÃ©ra d'Or which is like a best director award for first time filmmakers for Hunger.
The way this movie was made was another factor which touched me. The way McQueen edited the movie by showing the audience how Solomon went on from being a free man to a slave just like that by shifting between a very few scenes which affected the audience by putting them in that situation. Because most of the black people were slaves they were considered inferior by whites, they felt that it was alright for them to be enslaved. The truth is that Black people didn't have a chance to do anything because the whites wouldn't let them do anything like no schooling, no voting rights. Whites had an advantage because none of them had to work, all of their wealth was inherited from their parents and their parents before them. The acting of Micheal Fassbender in this movie was worthy of being awarded the best actor, I really don't understand why he wasn't awarded for his performance. The only bad cast member for this movie was Brad Pitt. McQueen had to cast him because he was the main producer and he wouldn't disrespect him by not casting him in that movie. Slavery is an important part of history of not only African-Americans but also Africans because wherever went they were treated like dirt and second class citizens. I hope that every person who sees this movie will realize that when they look at Africans as inferior they are forgetting a large era of their suffering. This movie contains a powerful message that every human being deserves not just to survive but to live.