Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles I was born the freemen live with my family in New York the good for him till the day I was to see to Solomon kidnap sold into slavery welcome everybody knew what the flick bed maker which Christian airlines overall they were into October were into the important how to capitalize for each pictures I believe is afraid you're looking for know I was 9 of your head the way I televising yet not way I talk yeah twelve years a slave 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 ads casting effect
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