Confronting and Heartbreaking

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2017)

I just watched this film for the first time on Netflix today. I found this movie very confronting and at times horrific. I don't know a great deal about slavery in America in this time but I didn't realize it was so inhumane. Although this film is touching and one can really can sympathize with the main character the brutalities are horrific. The scene with the young girl 'Patsey' getting lashed was extremely hard to watch. It really puts life in these times into perspective, I can't imagine what people in those times must of endured. All in all the actors were amazing acting these parts and the movie was touching and definitely one that is hard to pull away even at the confronting parts. I had never seen the actor Chiwetel Ejiofor before but in this movie he was outstanding and he deserved the BAFTA award 100%.