Genre: Drama, Biography, and History Release Year: 8 November 2013
Describe: The 12 years is a film that is very sadistic. Since this movie is about slavery, the movie is not showing the human right. Treating people differently because they are black not white.
Plot: 12 years of slave is based on a true story. It’s about an African American freeman, Solomon Northup who was taken in Washington and was sold to be a slave in 1841. Solomon Northup used to work as a violinist and was living in a happy family in New York. There were two white men that tricked Solomon; they invited Solomon to a dinner. Solomon got dunked because of them. When he woke up in the morning, the two white men bring him to a slavery place. He didn’t know what was going on. Solomon …show more content…
Due to the violence and rapping scene in this movie it is clear that underage children cannot watch this movie.
Opinion: This movie is very good and interesting. 12 years of slave may also increase our knowledge of slavery in the past. There is some scene that is violent and not all age can watch this movie. Though I understand why the put those violent scene. They put that violent scene to make the movie about slavery more realistic.
Explain or support them: The movie is interesting because it is about the flashback of slavery. This move will entertain you and will also learn about slavery. It might increase our knowledge about slavery because; it is based on a true story. They’re some violence scenes in this movie such as, raping a woman (Pasty), killing, hitting etc.
Example of the scene: The example of the violence scene is when the master killed a slave because of trying to stop him from raping a girl, and also when Epps try to stab Solomon/Plat because of helping