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live with my family in New York the good for him till the day I was to see
to Solomon kidnap sold into slavery
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the which has generated a great excitement and
a should it Christie first what's it about I love dance grackle
yeah i three people confuse all the time yeah it's me it's the third feature film
from artist turned filmmaker Steve McQueen
I and II an adaptation of the memoir by Solomon northrop
arm its it almost got a hitchcock story in terms of VHA innocent man for in a
terrible situation
northrop was a freeman in New York in 1841
a couple a con artist managed to get into washing DC with a drug him and told
him into slavery and he basically spent
12 years in now louisiana didn't
doing the most horrible stuff imaginable trying to
I get back to his wife and family I and he's played by
the great actor shoot elegy for and it is a
you powerful piece take a look well boy
you feel now on name is Solomon
not when the freeman and you have no right whatsoever to detain
you know freeman you know but a georgian
runway break mandas out please this property
called to come here strata fun taught you note some
I did as instructed there something wrong is wrong with the instruction mass
departure he walk
in or near 100 lashes so
like for symbolic get out there at the top this is a
is a good movie yeah absolutely I up there's something
about it though that kept me from feeling that'd take a great movie
on I think it's well short of being great I mean on the traditional
four-star thing this just screams three stars to me I
and I'm and I've had trouble figuring out what it is that makes it
not great to me since most people seem to think but
that it is great I there's there's no question it's a sequence
other thats yeah I and and maybe that was it that it just seemed like
one thing after another and their is in a great deal with
humanity it there isn't but arc the you would expect for you would think that
maybe the entire movie is going to be about the same trying to get out
and I think because that that notion get sort of
literally beaten out of him early on it only
for you know florid fires up occasionally the video is
units and paper mill write a letter or something um
but I you know I think that you know yeah it's not the transcendent movie
that I think some other early
reviews would lead you to believe that it is but its an exceptionally powerful
I'm and I think so well put together and
it's one of those movies that just I think portrays II corner American
history that we'd
still don't talk about it now right we still don't really explore with the kind
of depth that we should because I think it's
something we all there's a the there's a certain national amnesia about racial
issues but it's labor in particular
and some and I think just seen some that separate raid so vividly in just the
idea of how
living with the notion that at any moment you could be
sold you could be killed you could be whatever and it wouldn't matter in there
was no we're gonna melt in the United States of America which is a poster
come to the rescue of people in need would be like per
one step yeah red they may let me if we had Linkin
last year and we had anger last year
Sherm totally totally different angles on that likes to clean just
goes for in the most gruesome unflinching
way it possible to the point where it feels really
gratuitous in heavy-handed so there's a scene the scene where he is hanging
me I'm right is there anything and he is
is toes denim add just enough right to not
documents raise job with a little bit and
people who run the plantation to put in there that I was when haitians bill
infection
Benedict Cumberbatch and the time has been fetched to come in like actually
settle this thing
and I swear to God steam clean holes at shop what feels like
beyond an attorney taylor love that Singh II
and I loved okay my favorite scenes okay and the movie because it one shot
yeah because and we see is all the other slaves
who want nothing more that the get hammered stand
to rest his feet and save his life and they can't do it
they have to walk around and go about their business unable to
at tend to their friend on within inches up dying
letting the water at some point right when nobody's looking pasted that they
get away with because they will be evident to that
getting a drink the water go way anybody bring to the stand that although yeah I
as well
either that was incredibly effective yeah it was the intent to that so you
know I think that I think it delivers what it's supposed to do and I didn't
feel like it was overdoing it that
at times I kinda like this is the movie I get people roots could have been rated
R
rather have you know because roots flirt with this stopping you you get the idea
there's the beatings and there's the they sell you know 1977 it was american
tell
exactly yet so it was that within its parameters it did what I could do and
this was like you know what let's be
my really kick out the jams here not was a well-rounded that one a nightmare this
thing was you know
and now I'm you know it just Academy win-win-win Mike Michael Fassbender
wakes them all up in the middle of the night to like
damn forehand you know and and not to my liking to do those
ridiculous deal nineteenth century minuet to whatever the hell they are you
know why it's like you the cookie the cookie in ATL
ok honey I just you manage it was just such despite the the the
the psychological stress of living like that day in day out as well as i think
is trying to convey
but that means more powerful than showing every single last mark on
patties back all that but with the psychological torture to me
I I i think that that the physical purpose a cult or you're not I
helping to be a headshot every single last night he can restrain
but I don't but we are using all the federal Asher they should realize
margaret was all over
and both because I feel like I do you like he could have gone longer with both
and didn't buy anything I just think you know what I thought was important to see
the lashes when a slave named patty who we come to identify with whose
you know whose going through our own particular version
upheld having being owned by Michael Fassbender
I book when the scene that we see her getting
wept is a scene where jewitt elegy for has tonight
is forced which happens courses and and so
will he sorta focuses initially just on
book watching us watch Solomon forced to whip someone else is going to keep both
alive
right and then we see her suffering afterwards I
again I it wasn't the gratuitousness other in which the
sequentially ality what no no I your YouTube that's a myth
they have anecdotal is that what you're all aware which is why this user is a
I think that the movie lacks a certain emotional this week that would have made
this
great player user I think it is very good and I
anything is the McQueen doesn't work that way you know I love you look at
hunger
you look at shame which i think is the less successful movie I think he has a
certain sense
I love I'm to step back and you can take a look at this and you can come away
with whatever you want
which is fine and it certainly valid way to do it but it's not going to deliver
that
but we're putting the audiences I think often want and need to
walk away from something because I'll tell you frankly I think
you nope just a little dollop ok kinda
color purple sentimentality in the last scene in the film
would have a really put this thing over the top that's just me
I know people will disagree from but I still think it's it's an exceptional
piece work
the performances are great I mean I think that this movie is filled with
I didn't know who all was in this thing before I thought mm about you know about
him
Paul Giamatti and then and you know so at a parody as I can ratings from from
prior all day know and and and Karen Killam from SNL him just share Paulson
as Fassbender's white yeah I think it's great you the man anything
on Leno I just let me say a couple things that I really want to get out in
this movie and I think that
the united we just talk about captain Phillips whatever if you appear to it I
think taxes where the Oscar nomination but I think that you know
that that edgy for beat em
if it's that comes down to a two man race there's obviously a lot that's
gonna go into this
because I thought he was great I just in the movie was quite up to that standard
but you mentioned roots in laws allow the same age you were too young one
roots
came out I'm 41 so I was 15 yeah
yeah you but long till I am i three thought we were told by her
like by our with repeat history teacher told us to watch what we what truth
any change my life and it and II presume a change your Yahoo I read i read the
book a few summers later
right i mean it it it it it putting a gave you a prism love how to look at
slavery that
no one could shake me from Forever anybody who ever said you know
I was just a you know what is there to pick you earlier there are but
appearance that you have to kill your institution like no man
in now flavored lip balm and so
I think I was I saw the Telluride and and there was some dispute there about
whether you know
how old kids had to be to see this move because it is very violently
but I would say 10 11
last twelve years a slave yeah because tween yeah
but I mean it matters like yeah matters in the factor that
it does matter the fact that that your generation didn't have ruined my
imagination but yeah it was a it but didn't get your name
I it's a seminal
thing to understand and so whether or not I thought it was great or good
I think every kid at least twelve-years-old should see this movie
because it's there
edge this generation's ability to now frame the way they view slavery and
their 40 and crucial prism how they be race relations in this country
but going forward I i think it's a must see more than any other movie even by
only like that didn't
especially for the 12-year-old was already saw Django Unchained I was away
more by land and labor is way more fun and not entirely yeah
you know yeah historically kinda guarding israel's on my neighbors
I gave it a 7.5 but with a must-see 7.5 yeah
I'm giving it a seven anything performances meeting production design
its kinda overbearing in heavy handed to me lotta ways but my eye I give it a9 I
think it's its exquisitely put together and and powerful and there are scenes
are hard to watch
it does what it set out to do I would have liked a little more emotional heft
but that's just me are but I yeah I i I think people
should definitely see this movie 7.8 for twelve years a slave it
the the right now I think there's one negative review up on Rotten Tomatoes
ninety percent 97 any other nite nite nite 97 yeah
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