When free people are sold into black slaves, they experience betrayals again and again but still do not give up hope
Twelve Years of Slavery is based on Solomon's autobiography Twelve Years of Slavery, which tells the story of a free man who was deceived into becoming a slave, humiliated and tortured, but never gave up hope, and was helped by nobles to regain his freedom.
For a sad story, the saddest thing is not the story itself, but the story based on a true story.
Solomon was a violinist, and as one of the few free men among the blacks, he and his family were envied by many black slaves, and Solomon never dreamed that one day he would envy the free men as slaves.
In order to live, Solomon was invited by two white men to perform in Washington, but was deceived, disguised as a black slave and sold into the hands of the slave owner, tortured to the detriment of human nature.
Wake up and fall from heaven to hell.
Solomon awoke in a hint and explained it to the white men, but the man whipped him involuntarily, ignoring his legally protected status as a free man.
Lost dignity, lost freedom, lost future. Solomon's heart was to regain his freedom, so even if it was difficult, he would persist, to meet his wife and daughter, and to regain his former life.
True slaves would not rebel, and Solomon was alone.
When Solomon was on the ship, he tried to persuade the slaves on the ship to resist, and two black men had such thoughts, but they had to postpone the action for other reasons. The black slave told Solomon to do everything he could to survive, but Solomon said, "You can live without telling other people who they really are, but what I want is not to live, but to live."
A white man on the ship tried to insult a black woman, and his companions tried to help, but they were stabbed to death. Such a move made Solomon, who had the intention of rebellion, shrink back, he wanted to live, to live before he could talk about anything else.
The ship docked, and the remaining black man, who was the master who had come to his rescue, had lost the blood of the previous night and left obediently clinging to the master's chest. Three companions, one dead, one taken away by his master, leaving Solomon alone to be wronged.
Real black slaves have a fear of white people in their bones, so they will not resist, and once the free people who have been illegally trafficked want to resist, black slaves will not help them.
Rather than confronting head-on, finding the right moment is the right choice.
Solomon was taken to the slave market, and Mr. Ford took a fancy to him, but in fact, Ford's master was a good man, he did not physically punish slaves, and gave Solomon the opportunity to show his talents. But even though he knew Solomon's free manhood, he would not let him go, for Ford was still a slave owner in nature, but his conscience did not allow him to do evil.
Ford did not target Solomon, but his overseers beat solomon around him, even hanging him from a tree.
Solomon met a white man who worked to pay off his debts and wanted him to help deliver the letter, but the man betrayed him. Then there was another white man who had an open mind, who believed in Solomon, who was willing to help Solomon write letters, who also helped Solomon regain his freedom.
Pampering from slave owners was a nightmare.
The slave owner of the cotton farm fell in love with the black slave Paisley. Paisy was a smart, capable and beautiful girl, and the average black slave picked 200 pounds of cotton a day, but Paisy could pick more than 500 pounds a day.
It was hard labor during the day and humiliation by the slave owner at night, but even more terrible was the jealousy that came from the mistress, who beat up Paisy and did not let her eat, did not give her soap for bathing.
On the Sabbath, Paisy went out to another lady to ask for a piece of soap, but when she returned, she was whipped, stripped naked and trapped in a tree, her skin flesh blooming, and the whip beating out a thick mist of blood.
The farmer fell in love with the black slave, but he himself was reluctant to admit it, and he hated himself for liking the lowly Paisy.
Solomon was the unfortunate and fortunate of the black slaves, the cruel slave owners, holding the Bible in one hand and the whip in the other.
The film was shot in 2013 and won three trophies and six nominations at the 86th Academy Awards; at the 71st Golden Globes, it won one trophy and six nominations.
During the black slave period, racial discrimination was fatal. The director uses restrained lenses to express the most repressed emotions. Using calligraphy combining flashbacks and interludes, using montage techniques, solomon's fragments of memory are pieced together.
These two hours, I enjoyed and stimulated my thinking beyond that.
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