I am still numb... What a film, the film of the year!!! Mcqueen get ready for the Oscars

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2013)

Numb,in tears, and shocked is how i felt while watching 12 Years a Slave. A lot of films are well made, a lot of films entertain there viewers and while leaving the theater those films are already forgot. But 12 years a Slave does not entertain, it shocks with its true content,it takes one to a world that was once true, many put a blind eye to SLAVERY, but it was once a reality.
12 Years a Slave is the story of Solomon Northup. Solomon a free black man in New York, in the 1800's, has a family, a wife 2 kids, he is living the good life. He then on the pretense of getting a job with a circus with a good pay goes to Washington with 2 men. The 2 men however get Solomon drunk,kidnap him and sell him away to white men for slavery. Solomon pleads, cries that he is a free man, but no ones hears. Here starts his journey of slavery, he gets beaten, he sees black women get raped, he is forced to work, he sees all his rights be abolished, he sees such horrible things happen to African American people which are unnameable, and completely disgusting. Does Solomon get freed,does he reunite with his family, does he fall prey to circumstance like all the other African American people around him.How he and many other African American people cope with slavery and its harsh, disgusting ways forms the main plot.
Acting wise the film has many marvelous performances but three performances stand out. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup is the films life line, he gives his lifes best, and the best performance of the year. One feels he is pain and agony in the film, and in the climax when Solomon cries, one also sheds a tear. Michael Fassbender as the slave ridden master, is menacing, he acts so well that one hates him on screen. Brad Pitt as the Canadian that believes in equality is a little stereotypical, but he has a important role, and adds a mature performance
A couple questions I asked myself after exiting the theater was WHY? Why was the life of a black man any less than a white man. Are not all human beings equal, does a color make such a difference. Who gave anybody the right to enslave a whole race, the right to beat them, rape them, make them work without pay etc mercifully... Slavery in America should not have ever happened,this is what this film explain, all humans are EQUAL.... The film preaches that we have to learn from our mistakes and make sure nothing even close to this happens again.
The film of the year, Director Steven Mcqueen get ready for the Oscars, thats the biggest complement i can give you, you made a path breaking film!!!!
A MUST WATCH FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS...