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original or that I (or any regular movie goer) hasn't seen before.
But, an extremely intense experience because this film is different in one crucial regard: it is unrelenting. We experience for the entire film the world of the slave, after first briefly seeing his free life. The shock deepens and intensifies as the horrors mount, seemingly without end.
At the end, it was impossible not to have a strong feeling of revulsion, of white-hot anger, and other emotions all smashing against one another.
And the title delivers one of the greatest shocks: 12 years a slave was not only a fraction of what a typical slave endured---- the slave trade began in this country in 1619. That's a quarter of a millennium of enslavement. Roughly 250 years, until the Civil War. And then…. the situation hardly improved as Jim Crow and Reconstruction laid the foundations for the situation we encounter, today.
Well deserving of the year's best film, if one values art as a means of powerful communication.
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Topic - "12 Years a Slave:" nothing very spectacular about the film, nothing - tinear 07:34:26 05/01/14 (19)
- Haven't seen that but The Butler sucked NT - Jazz Inmate 10:30:54 05/11/14 (0)
- RE: "12 Years a Slave:" nothing very spectacular about the film, nothing - Billy Wonka 21:31:22 05/02/14 (7)
- I know you're just trying to be controversial, but in any sense comparing this to - tinear 08:43:02 05/03/14 (6)
- One reviewer referred to this as . . . - Billy Wonka 10:21:00 05/03/14 (5)
- It was an adaptation, not a copy. That's incidental, anyhow. My point stands, - tinear 09:45:23 05/04/14 (3)
- You gave no such reason . . . - Billy Wonka 13:11:09 05/04/14 (2)
- Willy, you need to reenter reality. YOU compared it to Mandingo. Exactly so. - tinear 14:04:35 05/05/14 (1)
- RE: Willy, you need to reenter reality. YOU compared it to Mandingo. Exactly so. - Bill the K 22:02:12 05/09/14 (0)
- I thought the story had the ring of truth about it - Road Warrior 15:26:18 05/03/14 (0)
- From yer subject line I was expecting a "pan" - Road Warrior 17:04:22 05/01/14 (1)
- She's studying American History so she was in attendance. She closed her eyes - tinear 18:40:20 05/01/14 (0)
- RE: "12 Years a Slave:" nothing very spectacular about the film, nothing - Demo 14:24:48 05/01/14 (1)
- A good film, yes, but it didn't have the same impact for the stated reasons. nt - tinear 18:41:16 05/01/14 (0)
- Where have you ever seen... - mkuller 12:34:10 05/01/14 (5)
- RE: Where have you ever seen... - Bill the K 10:15:24 05/03/14 (0)
- Never. I think I made that clear. It breathed verisimilitude. And a little reflection - tinear 18:48:51 05/01/14 (0)
- Blazing Saddles. Nt - geoffkait 15:08:27 05/01/14 (1)
- LOL! Next... - mkuller 15:20:01 05/01/14 (0)
- Django - geoff 14:09:13 05/01/14 (0)
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