12 YEARS A SLAVE

12 YEARS A SLAVE

Steve McQueen’s powerful account of Solomon Northup, based on the book by Northup, follows his disgraceful forced induction into the Louisiana slave trade. 12 Years A Slave is both humanising and unabashedly confronting.

McQueen’s stunningly framed shots make this depiction a reality, showing a time when people were forced into submission in order to survive.

It’s a movie that thrusts raw degradation, violence and racism upon viewers from the very first shot and is constant throughout. By the end it leaves them in a state of pure distress over the plight of Northup, played by the spectacular Chiwetel Ejiofors.

It’s one of the worst stories brought to film, yet this is one of the most outstanding movies of recent years. (CD)

*****

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