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"12 Years a Slave:" nothing very spectacular about the film, nothing

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)

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