Film Analysis Of The Film 12 Years A Slave

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The film, “12 Years A Slave” is a eye opening, perfect picture painted story of how slavery in the slave states was a cruel and sickening part of our American history. The story follows a once free black man named Solomon Northup, a successful violinist with a family gets abducted and forced into the slave trade and sold at auction. The events that happen throughout the movie elaborates the brutality of slavery on blacks, it shows the effects of slavery on slaves and also slave owners, it also depicts women both black and white are subject to authoritative treatment. “12 Years A Slave” can be analyzed in serveral different ways including several different topics. It shows of course how awful the treatment was but also proves that the …show more content…

A excellent film, with a perfect cast to portray this beautiful image. Mostly, what surprised me was the sympathy and caring that the owner of the plantation, Master Ford had for the slaves. The film made it a point it show how the other masters to the slaves were perfect examples of everything you’ve ever learned about slaveholders in the south but also some had a more lenient generous side like Master Ford. Inaddition, the man that the slaves are taken to when the crops aren’t producing is just as generous as Mr. Ford. He offers Solomon a paid job to play the fiddle, in which he kept all the wages. That surprised me the most owing to the fact that in that type of society where white males are dominant, and a white male acts upon the social norms that society creates and commits a deviant action. He will be sanctioned for what he did. It’s surprising that a dominant figure would act out of the constructions of society like that.
“12 Years A Slave” aims to purposely explain the inhumanities to slaves due to the southern beliefs and way of life. With all the images of cruelty and savagery that took place over the course of this film it makes you believe that no one should be an object nor be a property of another, every person must be equal among themselves and no one shall be enslaved nor harmed. The equality for all, white and black, females and males to all live in

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