"[96] A Black writer Michael Arceneaux wrote a rebuttal essay "We Don't Need To Get Over Slavery... Or Movies About Slavery". Northup is left on tiptoes with the noose around his neck for hours before Ford arrives and cuts Northup down. And 200 Years, Millions of Slaves? It can be argued that Nazi Germany lost the war both because it diverted so much manpower to the killing of Jews and because it did not exploit the brilliance of Jewish scientists in building smarter weapons. |, December 3, 2020 [52] Legend's cover of "Roll, Jordan, Roll" debuted online three weeks prior to the soundtrack's release. | Rating: A Read critic reviews. And then I also worked with Lupita Nyong'o, who is Kenyan but she did her training at Yale. [49] The film also features a few pieces of western classical and American folk music such as Franz Schubert's "Trio in B-flat, D471" and John and Alan Lomax's arrangement of "Run, Nigger, Run". 12 Years Slave Trailer. ", "The International Fate of '12 Years': Steve McQueen's Film Is a Box-Office Test Case", "Like Kanye West, Sean 'Diddy' Combs backs '12 Years a Slave' [Video]", "Diddy Praises '12 Years a Slave': 'The Truth Has Finally Almost Been Told' (Video)", "Weekend Report: 'Gravity' Wins Again, 'Carrie' Leads Weak Newcomers", "Weekend Box Office: 'Jackass: Bad Grandpa' Tops With $32 Million", "Weekend Report: 'Ender' Wins Box Office 'Game,' 'Thor' Mighty Overseas", "Top 20 Most Pirated Movies of 2014 Led by 'Wolf of Wall Street,' 'Frozen,' 'Gravity, "Specialty Box Office: '12 Years A Slave' Triumphs In Limited Debut; 'All Is Lost,' 'Kill Your Darlings' Open Solid", "Review: Powerful 12 Years a Slave won't turn away from the brutality of slavery", "12 Years a Slave: Toronto film festival – first look review", "Toronto 2013: '12 Years a Slave' is a landmark of cruelty and transcendence", "The Blood and Tears, Not the Magnolias: '12 Years a Slave' Holds Nothing Back in Show of Suffering", "Toronto International Film Festival 2013: 12 Years a Slave Review", "Slavery, a film narrative and the empty myth of original intent", "12 Years a Slave Prizes Radiance Over Life", "We Can Be Heroes: 12 Years a Slave, Schindler's List, and the hero problem in American movies", "What didn't deserve to make our Best Films Of The Decade So Far list? He also commented very positively about Ejiofor's performance, while further stating, "12 Years a Slave lets us stare at the primal sin of America with open eyes, and at moments it is hard to watch, yet it's a movie of such humanity and grace that at every moment, you feel you're seeing something essential. Many analysts compared the film's content to other drama films of a similar vein such as Schindler's List (1993) and The Passion of the Christ (2004), which became box office successes despite their respective subject matters. "[93], Some critics identified 12 Years a Slave as an example of the white savior narrative in film. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. and the Terms and Policies, 12 Years A Slave là câu chuyện kể về Solomon Northup, một người da đen tự do, một nghệ sĩ violin đang sống hạnh phúc bên vợ và 2 con ở bang New York. Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician if he will travel with them to Washington, D.C.; however, once they have arrived, they drug Northup and deliver him to a slave pen run by a man named Burch. [97], 12 Years a Slave has received numerous awards and nominations. He is told by the others that if he wants to survive in the South, he must adapt to being a slave and not tell anyone he is a free man. I live in Amsterdam where Anne Frank is a national hero, and for me, this book read like Anne Frank's diary but written 97 years before – a firsthand account of slavery.
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