A monumental achievement

Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2014)

Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave is one of those movies where you are not supposed to be entertained, but instead for you to get pulverized. The movie tells the true story of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor in an Oscar nominated performance) a free citizen, and is a musician is having a normal life at his home in Saratoga New York, until the year 1841 where he is in the process of looking for a job in Washington D.C. and then then he gets drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery for a horrific 12 year period of time of torture, horror, and misery. But the good thing is only one of his slave masters was actually good t him and his name was Ford (played by Benedict Cumberbatch.) but too bad Solomon only has him as a slave master for only two years>) and Solomon was sold to Ford by a guy named Freeman (played by Paul Giamatti) in which Solomon is sold along with a girl named Patsey (played by Lupita Nyong'o in an Oscar winning performance.) Then after two years pass by Solomon and Patsey are sold to cotton plantation owner Edwin Epps (played by Michael Fassbender in an Oscar nominated performance.) along with his wife (played by a mean but brilliant Sarah Paulson) where they both get tortured, beat up, and Patsey gets raped in one scene. The way McQueen directs this movie is kind of like the way that Spielberg directed Schindler's List (1993), or Amistad (1997) (but to me this film is much better than Amistad.) but totally different. The movie is arguably the best movie of 2013 that really showed how horrible it was for black people who were enslaved by white people all because of their skin color, and fortunately none of that happens anymore even though there is still some racial prejudice going on the world a lot of times without even realizing it.