12 years of Slavery

After 12 YEARs of being kidnaped and enslaved an emotional and teary Solomon came home to find that life went on without caring about his situation and condition, upon his return  he learned he was a grand Father amongst other things. As he called his children by their names as a mark of recognition and remembrance he apologised for showing up.

"I apologise for showing up, it is just that I had bad experiences for the last few years..."

After all the Evil and the misfortune that has befallen him he stood in front of his family and took ownership by recognising what his absence meant and created in his family no matter what was the circumstances.

I went through a lot of emotions throughout this movie at some point my eyes became watery, apart from economic gains and comforts it was a black man’s spirit that was under attack, the very same spirit that make niggers who they really are, their intrinsic collective self that which we call ‘UBUNTU’ the foundation being the understanding that ‘Motho ke Motho ka Batho’.

 Who ever made Niggers who they are knew that those who don’t have this kind of spirit would want to destroy it by evil means, every time they raped, lynched, hanged, burn the Nigger in their might they were trying to destroy this spirit. They always said Niggers are like Baboons or even worse but no Baboon was ever lynched for being a Baboon.

Solomon said…Master! After we cut these tree stumps we could tie them up in a format that will float and use this stream to transport them back to the farm, we would save on costs.

Are you a Nigger or an Engineer? He was asked…

There is a line in the movie where one of his (Solomon) slave masters said he was one exceptional Nigger, for me it was to reinforce the stereotypes that although there were some exceptional Niggers like Solomon the rest were good for picking cotton and cutting sugar canes against their will and without any financial compensation.

 

Good performances all round and some good dialogues in patched. The sound tracks could have been better.

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