Steve McQueen deserves every gong going for his unflinching portrayal of slavery. The true story of a man sold into slavery is no easy watch.but that doesn't mean it isn't worth watching. The ending, truthful as it may be, feels anti-climactic and rushed, more intellectually satisfying than emotionally fulfilling.
It is one of the most haunting, daunting movies made. But despite its unrelenting, tense brutality, you're unable to tear your eyes away. Solomon is played by Chiwetel Ejiofor: an enormously talented English actor getting the right break at the ideal moment.
In the film's early scenes, we watch Solomon stroll around his home town of Saratoga with his wife (Kelsey Scott) and children, and. A memoir by Solomon Northup, and later a film by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (no relation Thus begins twelve years of misery, agony, and punishing work as Platt is sold from master to master, and finds himself traversing the South, and.
Trailer 12 Years a Slave