12 Years a Slave Comments

  • Myles 2023-09-19 02:34:43

    Like the White Mansion family, another black director who was previously talented was rubbed off by the biographical movie [Oscar] and the heavy theme [Oscar]. This one is better, the use of several soundtracks and the setting of several scenes can still be It's eye-catching, and the unreserved display of cruelty and violence is still McQueen's taste. Unfortunately, the disappearance of the sense of time and the imbalance in the depiction of deep suffering make the film lose the emotional...

  • Jaquelin 2023-09-03 05:58:07

    The most shocking scene in this film is: the blues sung by the blacks when they were buried for the slave laborers who died suddenly. This is the chant they hum during their labor. In the play, the protagonists often pretend to be different and ignore them. Qianfan, lying down in the mud seemed like an instant, he was completely desperate and couldn't help singing, and finally realized that in the years without urgent hope, only relying on the soul to save. Why are R&B and soul touching? ?...

  • Carmela 2023-08-19 13:20:54

    Compared with the director's previous work, "Slave" is more neat and less innovative. For me, this movie is too bland and procrastinating. I still like the Steve McQueen who made...

  • Burdette 2023-08-10 19:58:22

    Narrative tension and character acting are excellent. But the problem...it's too much like a classical drama rather than a re-enactment of the real story that its movie scenes show. The choice of words in many character interactions goes beyond the sentence-making level of thinking that an illiterate slave may have, such as how the male protagonist and the female slave dispute how to express their sadness, and the female slave scolded the shark "Being blinded by your own covetousness" "!...

  • Berenice 2023-07-20 17:18:32

    Sure enough, it will win an Oscar, but it's not my favorite movie. Too Right Too Tall is a safe bet, but at the expense of style and power, Nebraska is just the...

  • Oma 2023-07-20 03:52:29

    However, without loss and without brilliance, it only describes the process of Solomon's enslavement. I'm not sure if McQueen felt that ditching the superfluous stunt would be a more faithful representation of this hellish journey. Still recognizable some of the pre/previous work's visual style and mise-en-scene. For example, compared with ordinary biopic directors, he still has a keen observation on the visual effects of the terroir and hydrology in the south, but there is no common ground...

  • Thurman 2023-07-04 19:10:02

    The film is narrated from the perspective of black slaves, showing the cruelty and ruthlessness of white people, which reminds me of Doris Lessing's first novel "The Grass Is Singing", which is precisely the opposite narrative to the film. The psychological state of cutting in, despising and fearing black slaves is very delicately...

  • Lottie 2023-06-30 03:00:19

    A well-established theme with bright...

  • Annette 2023-06-18 06:37:00

    like to watch this kind of...

  • Kole 2023-05-28 04:39:51

    I didn't even hold out until Pete came...

Extended Reading
  • Laurence 2022-03-21 09:01:13

    Memorable movie

    After watching this and watching "The White House Steward", the two films said that the narrative methods are different but they all point to the same theme, telling the oppression and resistance of black people. During the filming process, I thought of Obama. Why didn’t it happen before? It is...

  • Savannah 2022-03-19 09:01:02

    I just came here to complain

    The director and Fasha collaborated with Shame, and Fasha won the actor of the European Film Festival with that film. In this movie, Fasha plays a vulgar, superstitious and contradictory slave owner, unshaven, unshaven, likes his female slave, and has a jealous and hypocritical wife. In the whole...

12 Years a Slave quotes

  • Brown: Circus too constricting a word to describe the talented and merry band with which we travel. It is a spectacle unlike most have ever witnessed. Creatures from the darkest Africa as yet unseen by civilized man. Acrobats from the Orient able to contort themselves in the most confounding manners.

    Hamilton: And I myself in aide of Mr. Brown; an internationally renowned practitioner in the art of prestidigitation.

  • Hamilton: I'm afraid that Brown and I haven't brought you much luck. But rough waters bring smooth sailing. Eventually they do.

    Solomon Northup: So... so sorry...

    Hamilton: Shhh. We won't hear it. We won't.

    Brown: Let him sleep.

    Hamilton: Hmm. A good night's sleep. And tomorrow... tomorrow you will feel as well and refreshed as though the earth were new again.

    Brown: Hamilton! Nothing more we can do for him.

    Hamilton: Such is the pity.