, these are the labels I give to this film, but not all. In this film, it is full of contradictions, contradictions between races, contradictions between black people and black people, contradictions between survival and life, contradictions between compassion and selfishness...
At the beginning, the solomen were abducted and met several others who were also deceived. Black people, persuaded, how to survive. Solomon said, I don't want to survive. I want to live. Later, after being trafficked to Washington, facing a black woman who has been crying because of the loss of her child, the two argued, Solomon said, I want to survive! I want any A person who has not experienced it has no right to understand that feeling. From wanting to live to seeking survival, it seems that he has given up everything he should have as a human being, whether it is conferred by law or sensual enjoyment, the body. up, wait. Just to live, to live, to have only one breath left.
In Master Epps' manor, we saw all the cruelty of slave owners to black people. In particular, Patz's fate is left blank at the end of the film, but most of it is the ending that the audience can guess. Compared with seeing a living being beaten to death by a whip and leaving the ending blank, it can draw people's feelings more, not only anger. Pats went to Xiao’s manor on the Sabbath and had tea with Mrs. Xiao. Mrs. Xiao persuaded that no matter what it was, the physical spur, the mental pain, and the plunder of chastity, please accept it. When Patz begged Solomon to drag her to the river and drown, Solomon, for reasons of faith, did not grant her request. When Master Epps threatened to kill all the black people in the manor, Solomon waved his whip fiercely. Would he regret not acceding to Patz's request then? do not know. After Patz was released from the rope, the soap tightly gripped in his hand fell to the ground. The snow-white soap seemed to be the only clean thing Patz had left. Is friendship between slaves clean, no, because there are always choices to be made in order to survive.
I still remember the beginning of the film, when Solomon and several other blacks were trafficked to the north, he saw many other black slaves at the dock, and the faces of those black slaves were expressionless. Solomon and the black people who came with him called those black people slaves for generations and no longer had the heart to resist. Is there absolute justice among black people? It is not difficult to see that before Solomon was deceived, he was a man of great wealth and status, and he was also quite prestigious in the small town. He has free paper. But the same race in the north is called slaves for generations. Black people who are defined as free people, normal social life, dining and feasting, are actually discriminated against when they are "defined". Identity can be acquired, but skin color can never be changed.
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