Based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 autobiographical novel Twelve Years a Slave, the film tells the story of Solomon Northup, a black fiddle player with a wife, Annie, and a couple of children, who was lured by two con artists in Washington, D.C., in 1841, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in Louisiana, where he began his twelve years of slavery and ultimately gained his freedom. The story is so shocking.
This story is so shocking that Solomon’s encounter is similar to the cruelty of those college girls who were trafficked to remote areas, which is a great trampling on human dignity and a merciless deprivation of the right to freedom.
Slavery is an extremely dark and horrific chapter in the history of mankind. In the movie, we see the indomitable spirit of struggle and the courage of the black people in their pursuit of freedom, just as Solomon said: “I never gave up hope because I knew that one day I would be free again”.
2013 / USA UK / Drama Biography History / Steve McQueen / Chevatt Egafor Michael Fassbender
SolomonNorthup (Chevat Ejafort Chiwetel Ejiofor) is supposed to be a free man who plays the fiddle for a living and has a happy life with a wife and two children.
Unexpectedly he is tricked by two white men who think he is a circus show accompanist and goes to Washington, D.C., where he wakes up to find himself a black slave.
At first he is sold to Mr. Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) to work as a slave on the estate.
He is soon sold to Mr. Epps (Michael Fassbender), known as the “Negro Terminator”, who picks cotton day after day on the plantation and witnesses many of the tragedies of the Negro slaves.
Twelve years pass and he never gives up hope of returning to being a free man until he meets Mr. Bass (Brad Pitt), a carpenter, who is a progressive thinker.
Will Solomon be able to end his fate as a slave? This movie is based on the true story of SolomonNorthup.
