A wonderful struggle

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2017)

In 12 Years a Slave (2013), we are introduced to the story of Solomon Northup, a black and free New York violinist, who is abducted during a tour in Washington and sold as a slave to a Louisiana plantation, brutally portraying which took place in the southern United States around 1840. It is a cruel film with the spectator and will make you suffer practically from beginning to end, leaving you discredited by seeing so much barbarism being made by the human being, but at the same time hypnotizes you with so much beauty in the frames, the lighting and the outstanding performances of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o and Michael Fassbender, is certainly one of the best films of this decade and for me the best in portraying slavery, it is surely a must see for anyone who likes cinema.