Wonderful Depiction of Life As A Slave

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2017)

This was a brilliant masterpiece composed by Steve McQueen which follows a freeman who is deceived and brought into slavery separating him from his family for twelve years.It's very vivid in portraying the daily life of a slave and captures many of the horrors that slaves experienced and cruel acts wrought upon them by slave owners like whipping, sexual assault, verbal abuse, and other forms of physical torture and punishment. If anything, the movie sends the clear message that to be a slave was the most horrific ordeal one could go through and it showed, in most cases, the short lifespan of a slave.Although the physical abuse is plain and present the emotional/mental trauma that results might be the worse shown through a mother crying hysterically nonstop for her children which were taken from her and, in the end, Solomon Northup's tearful reunion with his family which he hadn't seen for twelve years. Altogether this film captures how life was as a slave as well as capturing the attitudes of the south toward slavery (pro-slavery, prejudice, racial discrimination, etc.).