Great acting fixes everything

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2014)

Slavery is an abomination. To treat human beings as property and inferior because of skin color is a horrific reality that man will be held accountable for at various time periods and places all over the world. Slavery is a powerful topic. What happened in this movie is the melding of a super charged topic with a cast of phenomenal actors. That's the simplified recipe of 12 Years a Slave. It is a compelling and heart wrenching story. Well done!
A couple things detract from the excellence. Others have said it already but I will agree:
-Over simplification of evil. Basically the white man is evil because of inaction or pure brutish oppression fueled by WRONG INTERPRETATION of the Bible. Brad Pitt is the token white man that isn't evil.

Drags and is predictable.

Nudity that will not make it accessible for the classroom. When you make a movie that is possibly the best slavery movie to date, think about the kids!