racism-related of the movie history​​​​​

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2016)

Summery ​ The movie '12years a slave' , directed by the British director Steve McQueen in 2013, is a racism-related and civil rights' story. This movie is based on the true story that happened in 1880s' southern part of the States before the Civil Rights' War had broken up. Everybody will be watching it concerned with what a tragedy truly happened to a black man. A free black man Solomon Northup, who had a family and lived in a small town in a northeast State peacefully, was abducted and sold by fake merchants in Washington DC, and then brought to the white owners of the cotton farm in a southern state. In the movie, you can see what horrible treatment he had to suffer. After he worked for a couple of years, he decided to escape from there. Although he tried to do anything he could do at that time, and he made innumerable attempts, such as trying to ask a friend or a reliable man to help him become free and so on, everything failed A decade later, a Canadian carpenter, played by Brad Pitt, travelled there and was asked to repair the wall of a small hut. Meanwhile, Northup found that it's the last chance he would get to be free and then asked him for help. At first, the carpenter wasn't willing to help him because he didn't believe the slave, but he thought that maybe that slave had really been a freeman before. He called the police and some friends, and they let Northup be free from slavery. After his release he went home and could meet his grown-up family again. It's a rare case to get to be a free man again. Almost all the slaves captured by the fake merchants could not be free and return home. They mostly lived as slaves to the end of their life.
Review This movie is particularly focused on the American slavery age while Hollywood has been focusing on the topic. I'm surprised that the director also suffered from the discrimination because of his black skin since childhood, and his works aren't estimated fairly in the Hollywood world. Actually this movie may remind us that McQueen is to the movie world what Northup is to the slavery age.