All the acting is first rate, as is the score by Hans Zimmer.
Or they "got lucky". Use the HTML below. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. And this is a slave who "got lucky". Some of the diction needed improving and the scenes in some cases were rather dark.
This is a masterpiece, disturbing, riveting, and necessary. It shows the brutality and there are important lessons to be learned: everyone’s destroyed by it. I think the problem lies in the editing - there must have been a huge amount of material to piece together, and the film becomes increasingly 'episodic' towards the end. A fine film - its plaudits were fairly predictable especially on the basis of the subject matter but - fair enough - it's well done. In the pre-Civil War United States, Rated R for violence/cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality Bottom line shows you how ownership of any human being is wrong, and it permits their progression ie is the epitome of oppression and degradation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The only thing that lets this film down is the rather odd beginning and the … This film was at times be very hard to watch and Steve McQueen has not held back in portraying an unrelenting cycle of physical and psychological violence and abuse. It is, hands down, one of the best book to movie translations. The film is very human. It's the true story of slavery and if you're curious about history and injustice, as I am, them you must see this. It's tragic circumstance of the writers story are horrificably unimageable to some of us - yet these things really did happen.
I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this period of American History. This is a delightful film in the making. You cry because what you witness is truly terrible, not because the violins are out and the director's tugging on your heart strings.
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Shame was one of the finest films of its year for its impeccable depiction of an addiction to one of humanity's primal survival instincts resulting in self-destruction. Download Twelve Years A Slave movie (2013) to your Hungama account. During its festival run when the buzz first began, I took it upon myself to read the screenplay.
My wife, did not want to watch it as it is quite graphic and, as she says, it is a true story which makes it even worse. A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
This is a brilliant film but if anyone squirms at cruelty in a film it's not for you to see.
Laughable. An excellent movie.
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You may hear some people say how some slaves "had it good".
Show this to anyone who thinks slavery wasn't so bad. Sad but true. a list of 66 titles
He's a very unique man. What can I say. Yes.
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A very important film, that's filled with some many great performances but the film is carried by the brilliant Chiwetel Ejiofor who delivers a powerful and stirring performance, sometimes without saying a great deal. How can anyone treat another human being in this way.