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Steve McQueens movie fudges a few information on Solomon Northups autobiography both intentionally and notto more completely portray the horrors of slavery.
A Slave, the kidnapped freeman Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), has a painful sexual encounter with an unnamed female slave in which she uses his hand to bring herself to orgasm before turning away in tears at the beginning of 12 years. The girl desperation, Solomon’s book, while the intense sadness of both, is depicted by having an unflinching still digital digital digital camera which documents an instant of peoples contact and bitter convenience in the face area of slavery’s systematic dehumanization. It really is scenes such as these into the movie, surely, that lead critic Susan Wloszczyna to mention that viewing 12 Years a Slave allows you to feel you have got “actually witnessed US slavery in most its appalling horror the very first time.”
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