{"id":134978,"date":"2013-10-16T04:55:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=134978"},"modified":"2013-10-15T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T02:57:11","slug":"12-years-a-slave-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/10\/16\/12-years-a-slave-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Years a Slave Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: 12 Years a Slave<\/p>\n<p>Fox Searchlight Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Director: Steve McQueen<\/p>\n<p>Screenwriter: John Ridley, based on Solomon Northrup\u2019s book<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Giamatti, Brad Pitt<\/p>\n<p>Screened at: Paris Theater, NYC, 10\/15\/13<\/p>\n<p>Opens: October 18, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a movie on a serious subject with a great deal of wit and irony, you couldn\u2019t do better than to go with Quentin Tarantino\u2019s \u201cDjango Unchained.\u201d For more of an exploitation tone, Richard Fleischer\u2019s 1975 movie \u201cMandingo\u201d about a man who trains a slave to be a bare-knuckle fighter is your best bet. For a TV serial, of course there\u2019s \u201cRoots,\u201d Marvin Chomsky and John Erman\u2019s TV mini-series, which caused quite a stir for its graphic and accusatory look at man\u2019s dehumanization of his fellow man.<\/p>\n<p>For a serious consideration of what is called \u201cthe peculiar institution\u201d with all of its degradation, brutality and immorality that makes one question what sort of nation we once were, \u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d is your best bet. For such an epic tale, Steve McQueen is the perfect director. His \u201cHunger\u201d in 2008 depicts the martyrdom of Bobby Sands who led members of the Irish Republican Army on a hunger strike in a Northern Ireland jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d is drenched in blood, passion and injustice in its illumination of a story that is all the more wrenching in its being adapted from the actual memoir of one Solomon Northrup. From 1841 to 1853 he was enslaved on a southern planation despite his being a free man living in Saratoga, New York and enjoying the patronage of people of wealth who hired him to play the fiddle for their dances. Chiwetel Ejiofor takes the lead role as the title figure, one who is named Platt though in truth he is Solomon Northrup, a fellow with a wife and two kids who more often than not is spiffily dressed in a brown suit and matching bow tie. Trusting a pair of well-dressed people who offer him a sizable sum to accompany them and to perform on his violin, he is instead drugged with wine at a posh restaurant, waking up attached with chains to his legs and arms. Insisting at first that he is a free man living in New York, he learns to accept a new identity thrust upon him by his slave-masters, who would beat him unless he went along with their lies.<\/p>\n<p>In one graphic scene we watch as Theophilus Freeman (Paul Giamatti) holds an indoor slave market featuring naked black men and women sold as though they were thoroughbred horses, noting for the rich attendees the muscular figures he pats on the chest. \u201cPlatt\u201d is bought by Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) who is relatively decent, and a final trade puts Northrup into the hands of the most sadistic of plantation owners, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) who has a reputation of breaking disobedient field hands and whipping workers who fall short of picking under two hundred pounds of cotton in one day (try it!).<\/p>\n<p>The rich women don\u2019t get off easily, as Epps\u2019s wife (Sarah Paulson) resents the attention her husband pays to the beautiful Patsey (Lupita Nyong\u2019o)\u2014who aside from serving as an unwilling but resigned release for her master\u2019s sexual tensions is also the most productive woman in the field. Expect the audience to gasp when Mistress Epps throws a heavy decanter into Patsey\u2019s face and later takes pleasure in watching the poor woman get whipped to within an inch of her life by Platt, threatened with death if he refused.<\/p>\n<p>While the R-rated \u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d would be a perfect eye-opener for kids now in middle school or high school, one wonders how many parents would want their young ones to encounter what was going on in our freedom-loving nation during some of its most savage years. In filming the epic indictment of slavery which is adapted from Northrup\u2019s book by John Ridley, Sean Bobbitt respects audience patience by his many long takes, enjoining editor Joe Walker from making the cuts that are so common in TV sitcoms and most serious movies alike. The war between master and slave is fully convincing given the impressive talents of much employed Michael Fassbender and of Chiwetel Ejiofor, the latter demonstrating his charisma as well in Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cAmistad,\u201d about a mutiny on a slave ship in 1839.<\/p>\n<p>The soundtrack is filled with spiritual songs by the field hands, as though contrasting their love with the brutality of their overseers. Almost needless to say, \u201c12 Years as a Slave\u201d will be remembered during awards season, including on March 2 of next year at the Oscar celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated R. 134 minutes \u00a9 2013 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n<p>Story \u2013 A-<\/p>\n<p>Acting \u2013 A<\/p>\n<p>Technical \u2013 A<\/p>\n<p>Overall \u2013 A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-Years-a-Slave-Movie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-Years-a-Slave-Movie.jpg\" alt=\"12 Years a Slave Movie\" title=\"12 Years a Slave Movie\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-134982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-Years-a-Slave-Movie.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-Years-a-Slave-Movie-300x224.jpg 300w, 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