Film · Fox Searchlight · 2013
Pass it on
12 Years a Slave
70Worth an evening.
Keep it for adults who can bear it. A free man, a paper, a wife and children, and a country that called the theft law.
The review
Solomon Northup was a citizen of New York with a wife, children, and a trade, and the United States allowed him to be sold. The film's discipline is to stay with the time. It does not offer a white savior as the meaning, though a man finally carries a letter. The meaning is the letter, the name, and the fact that the law had to be contradicted by a person willing to act. Patsey's suffering is not there for our refinement. It is there because leaving her out would be another theft.
Adults. Do not put it on as a background of importance. If you watch it, watch it through, and do not follow it with a cheerful picture the same night. The charge is not a feeling. The charge is to know that a legal theft is still a theft, and to be the person who carries the letter.
Journal
Keep 12 Years a Slave in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Cabrini
83 instead of 70
Cabrini is still a drama film, and it scores 83 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The vow is the engine, and it is not a costume.
The eight
- 7Industry
Field work, a fiddle, a carpenter's hands. Labor is stolen, and the film does not turn it into a montage of dignity-for-us.
- 8Household
A wife and children he is trying to get back to. Other families are broken in front of him. The house is the thing slavery is designed to unmake.
- 4Piety
Hymns, and a faith some of the enslaved hold that the masters also claim. The film does not let the claim cancel the chain.
- 8Courage
He endures, and he finally speaks his own name and his proof. Survival here is not passivity.
- 7Republic
The law is on the side of the kidnappers. A so-called Christian economy is the public.
- 4Temperance
The cruelty is shown because it was the fact. It is not a thrill. It is still almost unbearable, and that is a reason to choose the room.
- 10Truth
His freedom papers are the truth the country would not look at. The film looks.
- 8Stewardship
What he is trying to return to is a family. The film does not pretend the years can be given back.
Where to watch
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