Portrayed the awfulness of slavery well

Rating: 7/10 (4 June 2015)

Because I don't like films that reside in the past I wasn't paying much attention at the start and it took me a while to get into it. The time jumps made it even harder to follow (I actually watched the start twice).
But along the way the film started to get good (and coming from me that says something). The plot was very well written and was not to fast or to slow.
I wanted to see this film because the idea of slavery is idiotic to me. How people back then could be doing this is beyond me, but I guess it has something to do with greed and group pressure. This film really showed the viewer how awful slavery was.
Chiwetel Ejiofor did a fantastic job playing this character, Brad Pitt was really poorly cast and absolutely the wrong man for the role, even for the small part.