A movie you don't forget so easily

Rating: 10/10 (5 March 2014)

I watched this movie in the cinema and I'm glad that I did so cause it surely added up to the experience. After the movie I was under impression for quite some time. It managed perfectly to depict the horror of slavery. I haven't watched that often a movie that is so intense and compelling.
It also makes us think of how brutal and dehumanizing slavery was and how much affect it had on American society even up till today. I think that the story of the movie goes beyond the problem of slavery in USA cause the faith of Salomon (Chiwetel Ejiofor) can happen to all of us with modern day human trafficking. Chiwetel Ejiofor as a main character played one of the best roles in recent years. His acting was just magnificent in portraying a free man who became a victim of kidnapping and ended up being transfered to the South and sold as a slave. As he experienced freedom and happiness in his earlier life it was so much harder for him to accept a fact of becoming a slave. His background and education was noticed by others but it just brought him more trouble so he had to hide that fact. Although he was quite badly affected with all the hardship of his situation brought he never lost faith and dignity cause he doesn't want just to survive he wants to live a normal and decent life.
Michael Fassbender as a cruel slave owner Epps couldn't break his spirit as he did with so many other slaves. What I liked the most was the expresivness of his acting where you could read more from his face and his eyes than the actual words as slaves weren't allowed to show any emotions or have any opinions. Fassbender was also impressive in a role of obsessed and sadistic slave owner who was enjoying in torturing his slaves.
Although slave masters of that time treated their slaves in many different manner situation in which mr. Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) didn't help Salomon and just sold him to Epps showed how all the people who were part of that society were equally responsible for all the horror and injustice of slavery.
Have to add great camera and magnificent music from Hans Zimmer and to say that director Steve McQueen is a real discovery to me as well as Chiwetel Ejiofor. They both well deserve awards.