Evil law is also law, how to escape

Lavada 2022-04-22 07:01:03

After watching, there is a huge sense of fear. When some social classes define evil policies and laws instead of universal truths, your personal struggle will be minimal. Solomon was deceived and sold from a free man. When he woke up, his wife and children, work, residence, freedom, and dignity were all gone, and only the chains were left.
At first, I thought that Solomon could fight and find an opportunity to escape, but the white society has taken slaves for granted. When they see slaves being sold on the street, good people and bad people will buy and sell them. The color of your skin is the biggest imprint on your body. You are a slave. You are a commodity born to work and buy and sell. How can you escape from this invisible network of society, live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and never contact human society?
Later, I thought, slaves can unite to riot, the situation is the same as the Japanese invasion of China. Why can a Japanese soldier enslave a town and hundreds of people; why can a slave owner enslave a dozen slaves? My answer is that it is not easy to unite forces under high pressure, especially when you are used to being tortured every day, no one is willing to take such a big risk. It depends on the strength of unity to obtain freedom. Who is willing to fight and sacrifice but not be the first person to be free! I think this is also one of the considerations of the feudal and various brutal rulers' close guards. Of course, these close guards have already satisfied themselves with the identity, status, etc. brought to them by this system, and will not change. .
What strikes me is that the American contractual spirit has a long history. Under this extreme system, slave owners still believe in the law. When their slaves are sold again, they will resort to the law to get their private property back. Solomon also always believed that as long as you find someone to protect yourself, you can get freedom by finding the legal documents of your free person. In the end, white friends in the north sued, and the government guards really came to the local slave factory to question Solomon in accordance with the law. Just imagine in China, would ZF do this? Can Solomon really be free?
Even if you are free, but you are still black, your freedom proves that I can destroy you, and I can kidnap you again... Will you have such good luck and be free again?

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Extended Reading
  • Keyon 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    McQueen attaches great importance to visual effects, contrasting the cruel and unacceptable suffering with a picturesque southern American idyllic scene. The scene where Solomon is hanged is the most prominent. This kind of alienation effect is somewhat similar to Fassbender’s "Fear Swallowing". soul". But this still can't support a 134-minute feature feature film. There are too few substantive ups and downs. If the goal is to stimulate the audience's sympathy, 90 minutes is enough.

  • 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. . . .

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.