Starred by Chiwetel Ejiofor, yup thats his real name :P, Lupita Nyong'o, the new MVP of Hollywood and Michael Fassbender. Chiwetel played as Solomon Northup / Platt who was a free African American in the 18 century, he was abducted and found himself forced to become a slave.
He try to claim himself as a free man and end up he was beaten severely with a whip. You will see a series of man whipped in this movie, then again this is the slavery era.
He worked in a cotton farm, at the end of the day all the slaves have to give their collected cotton to the master. The master, named epps, will measures all the slaves collection in front of all the slaves. One of the slaves, Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) always return her collection more than any slaves could give. She finally become Epps favourite. As we all know, molestation is inevitable in the slavery era, this also happen to Patsey. Unfortunately, the lady of the cotton farm, sees Patsey as an enemy and bully Patsey most of the time.
Most of the story told is sad, it was a sad movie. You will constantly think to make Solomon run, hoping he could run as far as he could and become a free man. Well, for Solomon it takes him 12 years as a slave to become a free man again.
Chiwetel act very well, we could feel his confusion, frustation and how the spirit finally get stronger. Lupita in the other hand as the new comer of Hollywood shows her talent very well. The interesting part is Michael Fassbender or Epps, wewww he really play it well. I hate him to my gut! Hah! that good! He is a weird, eccentric and full of hate kind of person and show all of it to the viewer.
Not really love this movie, since its quite sad, but the player, the scene is beautifully shown all through the movie. I give this movie 3/5 stars!
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