12 years a slave, English Hollywood film movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * * * *
English Film Review Johnson Thomas Agonizingly Real Film: 12 years a Slave Cast: Chiwitel Ejiafor, Michael Fassbender,Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong’o Director: Steve McQueen Rating: * * * * Steve McQueen directs from a script he co-wrote with John Ridley, based in part on Solomon Northup's memoir(true Story) about his life as a free man in the 1800’s , subsequent kidnap and enslaving and finally ending in his rescue by a Canadian abolitionist. It’s a rare first hand account of a 19 th century memoir written by Solomon Northup, (who is the central character in the film), a free black man from upstate New York who got kidnapped on a lure and was subsequently sold off, under a false name, Platt, and papers attesting to the fact, for slave labor in Louisiana. It’s an account that even the most vilely depicted(in the memoir), Edwin Epps...