gpoposki

First i have to say, i went into this film blind. And i don't mean i'm blind, i mean i didn't know anything about this film before watching it. No trailers, no images, no summaries, no reviews, no nothing. Apart from the title of the movie. And to say the leas, i was quite surprised.

I knew it was about slavery, but what exactly, could have been anyone's guess. I never expected such an amazing story. A free man born in New York, gets kidnapped and sold into slavery. And so, he is stuck a slave for 12 years up until the day he finds a way to go back home. A good thing to note about this is that this is a real story. This actually happened to this man, he even wrote a book about it five years before the civil war.

Here's a quote from him about the book: " What it may be in other States, I do not profess to know; what it is in the region of Red River, is truly and faithfully delineated in these pages. This is no fiction, no exaggeration." -Solomon Northup

This movie was amazing. The actors, the writing, the atmosphere and the story, a story doesn't get any better than a real story.

Of course its not completely correct, and rightfully so, they must save up on time.

Surprisingly, for a movie with a short runtime of 1 hour and 34 minutes, it felt extremely long (in a good way).

A perfect movie in every aspect. A must watch film.

Wow, i was really amazed by this movie, the atmosphere, the emotions and the story are all perfect.

Now, lets not argue about "racism", because there is no such thing as racism in this film. Well, more like countering the popular belief of 2015-2016 stereotypes of people saying that "Muslims and Jews cannot be racist". This movie proved the opposite, and shows us that racial tension still exists due to the fact of people bringing it back up again.

Never the less, it was an amazing movie, with an amazing story, and an amazing message.

It's quite a shame, that such a good story was rushed and unfinished.

At the start of the movie, you're thrown into this expecting a random jump scare at any moment, because this is a horror movie, apparently.

The story was amazing and original, but quite a shame it was really rushed. The movie felt too short, in the way that the ending felt rushed, but got the story across within the designated time-frame. The acting was amazing, they really added to the dark atmosphere of the whole movie, and your left on watch, because of that.

Not really that scary, but i admit. I went "NOPE, NOPE, NOPE" at a certain scene.

An interesting story, that is not really a "horror", but some kind of deep dark atmosphere type of movie. If you like this sort of creepy, morbid, dark, satanic type of film, than its worth a watch, i guess?