Too much for me

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2014)

This is a movie that made me so uncomfortable !
The contrast between his past where he's a free human being, with a family, a home, a normal life and from one day to the next he's an animal.
I'm a black/métis woman, I've a good job, and a good life : I've never considered myself different from any white woman. I wonder how I would manage to survive if all of a sudden I'm abducted and fall from a middle class French woman to a slave.
I saw other movie about slavery but it's the first time a film like this brings out this issue to me.
Many scene made me sick, almost crying : the hanging, the rape when he choked her, the wife that throw the heavy thing at her head, the final whipping that made me look away...
In my opinion, it's a great film that make no concession, that force us to see the horror and the actors have done a great performance to move the audience.