Budget
$20,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$56,671,993
Opening weekend US & Canada
$923,715
Gross worldwide
$187,733,202
Budget
$20,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$56,671,993
Opening weekend US & Canada
$923,715
Gross worldwide
$187,733,202
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By Franz 2022-04-24 07:01:02
Solomon was trafficked by greedy whites and lived in slavery for 12 years, which did not kill his will to freedom. In the end God helped him and set him free.
The biggest impression that this film gave me is that it takes a lot of courage to never give up.
Solomon was a well-educated violinist. After being accidentally sold into slavery, the slave's life was very different from the original life. The physical abuse was riddled with abuse,...
By Charlene 2022-04-24 07:01:02
Is good and evil also divided into 369 and so on?
Twelve years as a slave is also divided into 369 grades? Yes, the various characters that appeared in Twelve Years a Slave told us that kindness is indeed divided into 369 grades. In my eyes, the biggest success of this film is that everyone's view of good and evil is vividly displayed. The actors portray the characters related to the "slave industry" under the times, whether they are kind, or dehumanize, or Good and evil are intertwined, and the highlights are vividly and vividly....
By Tod 2022-04-24 07:01:02
The only manifestation of the 12 years that I can't feel the 12 years as a slave is at the end of the film when I see that both children have grown up so much. I thought this was a long and silent episode of crying more and more violently. Speaking of apologize, it feels as if the only tear point is no tears at once. The narrative is a little watery. Maybe in order to let the twelve-year story be told in two hours, it has to be changed to a long time span like a running...
By Bennett 2022-04-24 07:01:02
Interpretation of words and images
1. "Words" and "images" are unified
Words and images are both separated from each other and linked to each other. Twelve Years a Slave reflects the close cooperation between "words" and "images" many times. "Yan" refers to the text symbols presented in the film. In "Twelve Years a Slave", a lot of folk songs are used, accompanied by a rapid rhythm to render the depressing and sultry atmosphere. Throughout the film, Solomon spends most of his time working on...
By Albertha 2022-04-24 07:01:02
I have always believed that there are two worlds in this world.
A world is safe, harmonious, and people yearn for freedom and abundance.
The other world is real and equally dangerous, and anything can happen.
They are incompatible with each other, and their distinction is both artificial and human.
Twelve years as a slave shows a vision.
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By Myles 2023-09-19 02:34:43
Like the White Mansion family, another black director who was previously talented was rubbed off by the biographical movie [Oscar] and the heavy theme [Oscar]. This one is better, the use of several soundtracks and the setting of several scenes can still be It's eye-catching, and the unreserved display of cruelty and violence is still McQueen's taste. Unfortunately, the disappearance of the sense of time and the imbalance in the depiction of deep suffering make the film lose the emotional...
By Jaquelin 2023-09-03 05:58:07
The most shocking scene in this film is: the blues sung by the blacks when they were buried for the slave laborers who died suddenly. This is the chant they hum during their labor. In the play, the protagonists often pretend to be different and ignore them. Qianfan, lying down in the mud seemed like an instant, he was completely desperate and couldn't help singing, and finally realized that in the years without urgent hope, only relying on the soul to save. Why are R&B and soul touching? ?...
By Carmela 2023-08-19 13:20:54
Compared with the director's previous work, "Slave" is more neat and less innovative. For me, this movie is too bland and procrastinating. I still like the Steve McQueen who made...
By Burdette 2023-08-10 19:58:22
Narrative tension and character acting are excellent. But the problem...it's too much like a classical drama rather than a re-enactment of the real story that its movie scenes show. The choice of words in many character interactions goes beyond the sentence-making level of thinking that an illiterate slave may have, such as how the male protagonist and the female slave dispute how to express their sadness, and the female slave scolded the shark "Being blinded by your own covetousness" "!...
By Berenice 2023-07-20 17:18:32
Sure enough, it will win an Oscar, but it's not my favorite movie. Too Right Too Tall is a safe bet, but at the expense of style and power, Nebraska is just the...
Edwin Epps: [Having awakened Solomon in the middle of the night, Epps coaxes him outside, puts his arm around him as if consoling a friend, and guides him into the woods] Well, boy. I understand I've got a larned nigger that writes letters and tries to get white fellows to mail 'em. Well, Armsby tol' me today the devil was among my niggers. That I had one that needed close watchin' or he would run away. When I axed him why, he said you come over to him and waked him up in the middle of the night and wanted him to carry a letter to Marksville. What have yah got to say to that?
Solomon Northup: There is no truth in it.
Edwin Epps: You say.
Solomon Northup: How could I write a letter without ink or paper? There is nobody I want to write to 'cause I hain't got no friends living as I know of. That Armsby is a lying drunken fellow. You know this, just as you know that I am constant in truth. Now, master, I can see what that Armsby is after, plain enough. Didn't he want you to hire him for an overseer? That's it. He wants to make you believe we're all going to run away and then he thinks you'll hire an overseer to watch us. He believes you are soft soap. He's given to such talk. I believe he's just made this story out of whole cloth, 'cause he wants to get a situation. It's all a lie, master, you may depend on't. It's all a lie.
Edwin Epps: [reveals a pocket knife he'd had pressed against Solomon's gut the entire time] I'll be damned... Were he not free and white, Platt. Were he not free and white.
Patsey: I went to Massa Shaw's plantation!
Edwin Epps: Ya admit it.
Patsey: Freely. And you know why?
[she produces a piece of soap from the pocket of her dress]
Patsey: I got this from Mistress Shaw. Mistress Epps won't even grant me no soap ta clean with. Stink so much I make myself gag. Five hundred pounds 'a cotton day in, day out. More than any man here. And 'fo that I will be clean; that all I ax. Dis here what I went to Shaw's 'fo.
Edwin Epps: You lie...
Patsey: The Lord knows that's all.
Edwin Epps: You lie!
Patsey: And you blind wit yer own covetousness. I don't lie, Massa. If you kill me, I'll stick ta that.
Edwin Epps: Oh, I'll fetch you down. I'll learn you to go to Shaw's. I'll take the starch outta ya. Treach, go get some line.
Solomon Northup: [Epps has just whipped Patsey within an inch of her life] Thou devil! Sooner or later, somewhere in the course of eternal justice thou shalt answer for this sin!
Edwin Epps: No sin! There is no sin! A man does how he pleases with his property. At the moment, Platt, I am of great pleasure. You be goddamn careful I don't come to wantin' to lightenin' my mood no further.