- 12 Years a Slave is, like The Trial, a trapdoor over the abyss. Although less abrupt than Kafka's novel, the movie wastes little time before plunging its viewer into a nightmare of dehumanization.
- It speaks to the courage and resilience of one man, the savagery of many, and the potential, for both good and for ill, in us all.
- In its own saintly manner, it's as exploitative as anything critics accused Django Unchained of being, minus Tarantino's eye for idiosyncrasy and sense of humor.
- The cumulative emotional effect is devastating: the final scenes are as angry, as memorable, as overwhelming as anything modern cinema has to offer.
- So overpowering is this film's simple, horrible, and almost entirely true story that it's hard to get enough distance on 12 Years a Slave to poke at its inner workings.
- Every scene of 12 Years a Slave, and almost every shot, conveys some penetrating truth about America's original sin.
- The power of McQueen's movie is in its declaratory style: This happened. That is all, and that is everything.
- It is a film that necessity and education demand seeing.
San Francisco Chronicle
10/31/2013 by Mick LaSalle
It provokes recognition in us of the very heart of darkness. It makes the unimaginable imaginable.- '12 Years a Slave' isn't easy to watch, and it shouldn't be; it's one man's tragedy, but it's also the tragedy of countless thousands of souls beaten down, literally and metaphorically.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
10/31/2013 by Colin Covert
The film is both brutal to watch and stunning to contemplate, powerfully challenging audiences - particularly white audiences - to examine their consciences.- Slavery is revealed for the unrelenting horror that it was. About time.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
10/31/2013 by Calvin Wilson
One of the best and most courageous films of the year.- 12 Years a Slave is at times difficult to watch but always impossible to turn away from.
- This is not medicine for America to swallow; it's filmmaking of the highest caliber.
- '12 Years a Slave' lays out an institution so twisted and wrong that its honest portrayal has been avoided for centuries. Yes, it's dark and brutal. It needs to be.
Orange County Register
10/24/2013 by Michael Sragow
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
10/24/2013 by Cary Darling
But the much talked-about 12 Years a Slave is more than a beautifully shot art piece. It's history made violently real.- Other movies and books have gone here, but few so far and with such overwhelming clarity of purpose.
- The film offers a formidable indictment of the cruelty of which human beings are capable.
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12 Years a Slave is a 2013 period drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northup’s memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate.[4] Other characters in the film were also real people, including Edwin and Mary Epps, and Patsey.
The film was directed by Steve McQueen. The screenplay was written by John Ridley. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup. Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alfre Woodard are all featured in supporting roles. Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 27 to August 13, 2012. The locations used were four historic antebellum plantations: Felicity, Bocage, Destrehan, and Magnolia. Of the four, Magnolia is nearest to the actual plantation where Northup was held.
12 Years a Slave received widespread critical acclaim, and was named the best film of 2013 by several media outlets. It proved to be a box office success, earning over $187 million on a production budget of $22 million. The film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Nyong’o, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley. The Best Picture win made McQueen the first black producer ever to have received the award and the first black director to have directed a Best Picture winner.[5][6] The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognized it with the Best Film and the Best Actor award for Ejiofor.[7]
- 12 Years a Slave (2013) In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.
- Watch Movie 12 Years A Slave 2013 Full HD| Cast: Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Garret Dillahunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams| Director: Steve Mcqueen| Pilot: In The Pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, A Free Black Man From Upstate New York, Is Abducted And Sold Into Slavery.
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