A must see...

Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2015)

After watching 12 Years a Slave with my family, we all agreed that this film is a must see for any American. While it is awfully sad and hard to watch at times, it is rightfully so. As George Santayana once said,"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." It's important for people to understand that slavery is part of our American history or else we may be doomed to repeat such atrocities. This movie transcends time and is able to bring the viewer back to a time and place that most history text books would like to skip over. Part way through the movie I even realized that I was instinctively scared when a white person showed up on screen. This is the kind of experience everyone needs to even begin to understand what antebellum America may have been like for a slave.