12 Years a Slave Comments

  • Vaughn 2021-10-20 18:59:25

    The soundtrack (or similar soundtrack) is very thoughtful. The front, middle and back three long shots are pressed into the array. The clever flashbacks on the structure of Shunxu are laid out. …The rhythm of all these aspects is quite likable. In this case, I will not discuss whether the story is my favorite...

  • Brody 2021-10-20 18:59:25

    No feeling! No feeling! No feeling! No matter how accurate and powerful the scheduling and director's control of the film are, it is difficult to impress the hearts of the audience (at least I am like this...), but it's too much work, it's a...

  • Winona 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    There was a feeling of speaking slowly, but after reading it in one go, he was relieved but couldn't calm down for a long time. McQueen's movie has a strong sense of picture. The male protagonist finally hugged his family and cried. The part was very moved. BC's character is more ordinary and typical of the image of the ordinary manor. The performance of Fasha is still not disappointing or so impressive....

  • Brice 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    Because of the presence of Fasha, it is always difficult to take this film seriously. I always feel that this is a comedy, and this male duo is so brilliant. It's a pity that "Noble Cold Shark" does not run the PR activities of the awards season. The script is too tidy and the values ​​are too correct. A movie fan with movie-watching experience can predict everything, except for the degree to which the human nature will be distorted under excessive direct violence and slavery....

  • Christophe 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    Too worried. This situation of being a slave for twelve years can be seen in the long shot where Solomon stretched his long neck and hung from a tree, struggling to tiptoe up in the slippery mud. When I watched it, I hate that Uncle Christoph came to shoot Fa Shak headshot! I have to revisit and , first engage in psychological reconstruction, and secondly experience how a great white man who has changed human history can think and act beyond his race, origin and...

  • Miller 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    4.5. Reproduce the history of slave trade. In that period of distinct hierarchical systems, the lowly status of the blacks made people sad. If you change to a director who is good at making commercial films, it might be a shocking epic. However, McQueen still maintained his personal style, and the whole movie is more realistic, focusing on recreating the real trivial lives of black slaves, and the psychological coexistence of depression and explosion. The terrible scars on the back are the mark...

  • Lesly 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    If you still focus on the color dispute, such as sympathy for blacks, you will be blinded by watching this movie. It is actually about the relationship between human behavior and social systems. Most of the time, the protagonist is in a state of helplessness and incompetence. Doesn’t it sound familiar? It’s the common state of the protagonist in McQueen’s works. Life is a huge...

  • Melyssa 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    The medium-length mirror that grows a little bit is used wonderfully, making all kinds of emotions hang over. The humiliating journey like the Odyssey, the content is correct, and the intensity is of the type of needle in the cotton. The soundtrack is sometimes...

  • Webster 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    Of course being a slave for 12 years is very miserable, so what if we have been slaves for 24 years...

  • Jasen 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    Men were deceived, women were raped, they picked cotton on the day, and were lashed again. As a cow and a horse for twelve years, he...

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12 Years a Slave quotes

  • Edwin Epps: If something rubs you wrongly, I offer you the opportunity to speak on it.

    Bass: [exhales] Well, you ask plainly, so I will tell you plainly. What amused me just then was your concern for my wellbeing in this heat when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers...

    Edwin Epps: The condition of my laborers?

    Bass: It is horrid.

    Edwin Epps: The hell?

    [chuckles]

    Bass: It's all wrong. All wrong, Mr. Epps.

    Edwin Epps: They ain't hired help. They're my property.

    Bass: You say that with pride.

    Edwin Epps: I say it as fact.

    Bass: If this conversation concerns what is factual and what is not, then it must be said that there is no justice nor righteousness in their slavery. But you do open up an interesting question. What right have you to your niggers, when you come down to the point?

    Edwin Epps: What right?

    Bass: Mmm

    Edwin Epps: I bought 'em. I paid for 'em.

    Bass: Well, of course you did, and the law says you have the right to hold a nigger. But begging the law's pardon, it lies. Suppose they pass a law taking away your liberty, making you a slave. Suppose.

    Edwin Epps: That ain't a supposable case.

    Bass: Laws change, Epps. Universal truths are constant. It is a fact, a plain and simple fact, that what is true and right is true and right for all. White and black alike.

    Edwin Epps: You comparing me to a nigger, Bass?

    Bass: I'm only asking, in the eyes of God, what is the difference?

    Edwin Epps: You might as well ask what the difference is between a white man and a baboon.

    [chuckles]

    Edwin Epps: I seen one of them critters in Orleans. Know just as much as any nigger I got.

    Bass: Listen, Epps, these niggers are human beings. If they are allowed to climb no higher than brute animals, you and men like you will have to answer for it. There is an ill, Mr. Epps. A fearful ill resting upon this nation. And there will be a day of reckoning yet.

  • Ford: What is the price for the ones Platt and Eliza?

    Freeman: A thousand for Platt; he is a nigger of talent. Seven hundred for Eliza. My fairest price.

    Ford: You will accept a note?

    Freeman: Always from you, Mr. Ford.