My Review

Rating: 9/10 (8 January 2018)

I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it was very moving and real unlike most movies that depict slavery. It is such a sad thing to see but I feel as if the director and producers did an amazing job with the delivery of the whole thing. I felt as if I were in the production myself. The scene where Patsey is tied to the tree and has to be whipped and the plantation owner makes Solomon do it is so heartbreaking, and even when the mother gets separated from her children I felt her pain. Solomon tries his best to survive in the conditions that he is subjected to, especially being a freeman that was captured into slavery. I think he does his best to try and keep his head up and towards the end of the movie it all pays off and the ending is somewhat joyous because he finally is reunited with his family, but the ending of the movie also reveals that the men that sold him into slavery faced no repercussions. Overall I enjoyed the movie very much.