12 Years a Slave Comments

  • Raphael 2021-10-20 18:59:23

    Using the seemingly simplest methods of changing the angle of space and length of time to pull the audience into the picture is McQueen's unique skill. His movement or motion of each shot always has the most expressive meaning and the most direct impact. The frankness and passion of this person under the calmness are also vividly reflected in this epic story about survival. Silent compassion and powerless resistance accumulate over time. The moment of rescue is far from the end of human...

  • Kathryne 2021-10-20 18:59:21

    No matter how the so-called "mainstream" critics are overflowing with words of beauty this time; I look at it from an objective ~ higher than historical and pure aesthetic point of view-I think this film is very general. Except for the smooth details such as the photographic soundtrack, it is actually a very mediocre film. . Even the narrative is not compact/quite disorganized.. The director's skill is not yet ready~ mediocre control. Seeing that in the end, there is no real way from the...

  • Timothy 2021-10-20 18:59:21

    He is restrained enough not to please, but uses the most frugal lens to convey the deepest emotions; sometimes kind and sometimes cruel, leaving no room, you can only bear it. This is obviously only Solomon's story, but why does each character live so real. Watching the movie for two hours forced me to think more about freedom, race, and its impact on the United States than in the previous 22 years. There is no subject that does not catch a cold, only works that are not good...

  • Zella 2021-10-20 18:59:21

    Sherlock's role as the farmer was pretty straightforward. Why is Peanuts not their...

  • Aletha 2021-10-20 18:59:21

    Can the flogging scene be left in film history? A white young man sitting on my right with a tattoo on his arm was full of tears at the moment when the lights came on, which was shocking. In addition, if this movie can win the Golden Man, the theme of the Oscars for two consecutive years will be "Canada Save the...

  • Destany 2021-10-20 18:59:11

    McQueen continued his own style in Hollywood, using a direct display of a person's physical and mental state under extreme conditions (while simplifying the lines as much as possible) to make the most instinctive impact on the audience. The visual aspect is very good, every shot has its meaning. Cleverly, it also downplays the concept of "twelve years", emphasizing the continuity of a state. Even long shots have become a tool for this continuity and rhythm, and the second half is...

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

    Twelve years as a slave

    There are no lack of heavy and touching good stories under the black slavery system. This story, which is based on real characters, is undoubtedly a good subject. But what I think of is another TV about black slaves I watched when I was a child, and I didn’t know the movie. It impressed me more...

  • Enid 2022-04-21 09:01:16

    After watching

    Under the guise of humanity and freedom, the U.S. exploits and destroys other nations and races. It is too evil. In the guise of God, it is used to deceive and oppress. He is just one of countless such black people. He succeeded, but I don't know how many black people in the shadows have suffered...

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.