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Jose 2022-03-22 09:01:12

Poems written in the process of watching a movie. The language of the film is very touching, with the power of humanity and faith, and the music is very good.

[First song]

A free black man could not bear it, he was irritated

Beat the farmer's son hard on a meadow

During the day, he listened to his grandpa reading the Bible with a group of real black slaves

"White cotton should be spread on the bed of kind people"

This is what the bible says

When two black girls were picking cotton

The whip that is raised is always to be thrown out

"Dance, kids! Be happy!"

The black man who wounded the son must die. Don't read

Write a note to trouble yourself

A black man with self-esteem can die anytime

The American vine dances in the river at dusk when the disaster is approaching

[Second Song]

"Please do me a favor

Kill me

Take me to the lake

Press me into the water

Pinch my neck

I will die soon

Help me

For the sake of money"

[The third song]

What a day

Strict prayer and sacred carols worked

The flowing Jordan River is sacred...

That's good, the plague also flows away

Everyone clap their hands and sing ancient carols

It's so cold at dusk after the rain

Give me a piece of white soap

I will become clean in the sun

2017/1/20

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Extended Reading
  • Birdie 2021-10-20 18:59:26

    This is the first time I have seen such a calm, effective and critical use of multiple long shots in a mainstream Hollywood movie. McQueen has truly integrated his style into the Hollywood system and is more mature than it was in Hunger. In fact, this story about personal suffering and national tragedy is still extremely universal, beyond the scope of black movies. Worthy of an Oscar is the best.

  • Percy 2021-10-20 18:59:26

    It's a pretty good-looking movie. The most inexplicable accusation against this film is to put on a disdain of "huh, political correctness", neurosis, and the subject of black slaves is political correctness? Was accused of yin and yang weird for this? This kind of subject matter can't be photographed or something.

12 Years a Slave quotes

  • Clemens: If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. Tell no one who you really are and tell no one that you can read and write. Unless you want to be a dead nigger.

  • Robert: I say we fight.

    Solomon Northup: The crew is fairly small. If it were well planned, I believe they could be strong armed.

    Clemens: Three can't stand against a whole crew. The rest here are niggers, born and bred slaves. Niggers ain't got the stomach for a fight, not a damn one.

    Robert: All I know, we get where we travelling we'll wish we'd died trying.

    Clemens: Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down.

    Solomon Northup: Days ago I was with my family, in my home. Now you tell me all is lost. "Tell no one who I really am" if I want to survive. I don't want to survive, I want to live.