Memorable movie

Laurence 2022-03-21 09:01:13

After watching this and watching "The White House Steward", the two films said that the narrative methods are different but they all point to the same theme, telling the oppression and resistance of black people. During the filming process, I thought of Obama. Why didn’t it happen before? It is definitely not accidental that a movie like this came out. I think everyone should be able to understand it.
Talking about the feeling that I feel a little sleepy when watching the movie, and I want to fast forward, the overall rhythm feels a bit messy, it is too flat and straightforward, there is no climax and no low, and the narration of the story is a one-stop rhythm, except for the process. In addition to some of the protagonist’s memories, the narrative is too single, but the overall story narrative is very complete so that I can understand what the movie is performing.
However, this kind of movie is a kind of movie that you know at the beginning and end, but as a movie that reflects the racial discrimination of the US at that time, it is still very profound. It is worth watching, and it is also worth thinking about and passing the movie. Reproduce the complicated and tangled relationships between slaves and slaves, slaves and slave owners, slaves and slave owners and servants, and the difficulty of the hero escaping from slavery and regaining his freedom.
The film not only talks about the discrimination between skin colors, but also reflects the inequality between levels and the loneliness, depression, and helplessness when people face difficulties. I didn't feel it when I watched this movie, but I still have a lot of aftertaste, depending on how you think.
In a word, it feels: The aftertaste is still very tasty, it is worth watching it a second time, but the overall narrative is too plain. If you can't rest assured to appreciate the suggestions, it's better not to read it, otherwise you will scold your mother again.

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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.