12 Years a Slave Comments

  • Alanis 2022-03-23 09:01:14

    This is not a simple movie, but a biography. The film calmly tells the history of black slavery in a light narrative style, without sympathy, as long as you understand...

  • Cleve 2022-03-23 09:01:14

    Putting aside the praise of Rotten Tomatoes and the reputation of various film festivals, objectively speaking, I have not seen the shining points of the film. As a Chinese, I don't know much about the history of American history and slavery, and it is difficult to have sympathy; it is even harder to have a sense of substitution in such a slow and loosely paced film. Personally, I feel that telling stories with "hunger" and "shame" is too clever. The only thing that impresses is the acting...

  • Jerald 2022-03-23 09:01:14

    Black slaves have always existed... Equality is often just talked...

  • Amelie 2022-03-23 09:01:14

    It feels okay to be unfamiliar with that period of...

  • Carli 2022-03-23 09:01:14

    The eternal theme of black and white America, seemingly race, is actually a discussion of human nature. Since there are no racial differences, this society is still full of injustice and...

  • Autumn 2022-03-23 09:01:14

    A politically correct racial...

  • Antonina 2022-03-22 09:01:12

    When your freedom and civil rights are easily taken away because of system, prejudice or discrimination, you can do nothing about your own destiny. . ....

  • Percy 2021-10-20 18:59:26

    It's a pretty good-looking movie. The most inexplicable accusation against this film is to put on a disdain of "huh, political correctness", neurosis, and the subject of black slaves is political correctness? Was accused of yin and yang weird for this? This kind of subject matter can't be photographed or...

  • Daniella 2021-10-20 18:59:26

    The film is also known as: "Don't Travel With...

  • Birdie 2021-10-20 18:59:26

    This is the first time I have seen such a calm, effective and critical use of multiple long shots in a mainstream Hollywood movie. McQueen has truly integrated his style into the Hollywood system and is more mature than it was in Hunger. In fact, this story about personal suffering and national tragedy is still extremely universal, beyond the scope of black movies. Worthy of an Oscar is the...

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  • Arden 2022-04-21 09:01:16

    terrible black slavery

    After watching the film, my heart is very heavy. It is hard to imagine that this is still the life of a black slave after being filmed in a drama. The real situation will only get worse. In that era of discrimination, the fate of being a black slave is definitely in human history. The torture is...

  • Gerardo 2021-10-19 09:51:44

    Twelve Years A Slave

    Twelve Years A Slave has been a slave for twelve years.

    Some movies can kill time, two hours in a flash of laughter and curse, popcorn ice soda, and another half day. Some movies are like years, making you feel like sitting on pins and needles, and sometimes you have to close your eyes and...

12 Years a Slave quotes

  • 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.

  • Burch: Well, my boy, how yah feel now?

    Solomon Northup: I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me...

    Burch: Yah not any...

    Solomon Northup: And I promise you - I promise - upon my liberation I will have satisfaction for this wrong.

    Burch: Resolve this. Produce your papers.

    [Solomon searches and finds no papers]

    Burch: Yah no free man. And yah ain't from Saratoga. Yah from Georgia. Yah ain't a free man. Yah nuthin' but a Georgia runaway. Yah a runaway nigger from Georgia.