One of an all-time-great...

Rating: 8/10 (17 March 2015)

I rarely ever give extraordinary notes but this must the be by far the most difficult movie I've had to watch in a long time. Many times I was speechless and even had to avoid watching certain sequences of the movie by turning my head away in front on the rough strong reality - ; especially the one where Lupita was flogged to blood ; of the strong ambiguous period of the US when the southern states continued slavery when the northern ones had already done about it.
What made this film difficult for me is the fact that there was no escape, no hope [...] throughout the whole movie when you wished, you begged, you thought that they would somehow revolt and run away. Even if when he escapes through the help of one of his friends and that letter he sent, the others were still continuously made slaves.
This film is really one of many reality check to some of these societies about how they were able to treat fellow human beings as animals for so many years without feeling any remorse.
It's really difficult to put words on this masterpiece. It's really difficult to explain the feelings after watching such a movie - a mix of pain, sadness, crying, silence, anger [...] damn. It's been long since a movie made me feel like that. And, I'm not even certain I would watch it for a second time with a straight face. 12 years a slave is though on you in a brilliant way no doubt about it.