2013 African American slave film, adapted from solomon Northp biographical novel directed by Steve McQueen, starring Chevat Edgar Ford, Michael Fassbinder, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamarty, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alpha Ward.
In 1841, Solomon was a black man, educated and civil, dependent on violin techniques to support his family, had a happy family in New York, and one day two white men came and offered him a job performing with circus accompaniment, and the high pay attracted him to Washington.
After a show, the three drink and celebrate, Solomon falls drunk in bed, wakes up to find himself imprisoned in a dark room with his hands and feet bound, and two people come in to tell him that he is a slave in Georgia, turn a deaf ear to his explanations, and beat him to force him to accept his new identity, and finally has to submit to the slave traders.
Solomon was renamed Pratt, and other blacks were shipped to Georgia to be sold, shown like pigs and dogs to white people to choose, and the kind manor owner Ford picked up Pratt and a female black man, although he wanted to buy her children to reunite her mother and son, and the family could only force separation.
John, the carpenter at Ford Manor, was extremely discriminatory against blacks, liked to manage and torture them, and was more and more unable to accept the harmony between Pratt and Ford, who used waterway transportation to improve work efficiency, and began to change the law to find Platt's trouble, and Pratt was finally provoked to wrestle with him until he was separated by the overseers, but Pratt's trouble also followed.
John summoned two helpers to hang Pratt from a tree, and the overseer intervened to stop John's attempt to kill Pratt, but did not let go of him, and hung on the verge of suffocation for a day until Ford came back and laid him down.
Ford, fearing trouble, also sold Him to Epps, another slave owner known as a black killer, for Pratt's personal safety, and the selfish Epps disposed of his slaves at will to vent his emotions, killing them to death, and made a rule for them that each person must pick more than 200 pounds of cotton per day, otherwise it would be whipped.
After laying down one night, Epps forced them to get up for the dance, which was extremely oppressive. Pratt was responsible for playing the violin, and because Epps preferred the female slave Paz, he provoked the jealousy of the hostess, and he also took Paz out of anger at every turn, so that Paz was better off alive than dead, and once begged Prato to end his life.
The hostess told Prato to go out to buy something, and Prato was also clever, insisting that he was illiterate, and that he had tried to escape on the way, but when he saw the black slaves who had been hanged, he quickly dispelled the idea, and he had to live quietly to find a chance to regain his freedom, and finally once he quietly hid a piece of paper.
The following year, when the cotton fields of Epps were plagued by insects and the production was extensively reduced, he had to temporarily lend extra slaves to save money, so Prato was sent to work on the sugar plantation of the local judge, where the food was improved, there was no torture, life was relatively peaceful, and he left a few mulberries at each meal to collect for ink, hoping to write a letter to explain the situation and let people take it out. And because Pratt's excellent performance was rewarded with a little tipping, he quietly hid.
A few months later Epps returned his slaves, again imposing a high-handed policy on them, and there was a white man who claimed to have come to work to earn money, who was deeply sympathetic to the slaves, and his sincere attitude made Pratt think that he was the messenger sent to him by God, so he gave his plans and plans, and gave him all the money he had received, and the white man took the money and swore a secret in his honor, and then agreed to write to him the next night.
Late at night Epps found Pratt and threatened him, and Pratt knew that he had been sold, so he was in a hurry, saying that the drunkard could not be believed, that he was just trying to be an overseer. Epps believed him, and Pratt escaped the fate, quickly burning the written letter, and could only continue to wait for the opportunity, and be cautious.
One day, Epps asked the Canadian carpenter Beth to help build a pavilion, and Beth was opposed to slavery and sympathetic to blacks, willing to take the initiative to chat with them about his hometown, And Pratt finally plucked up the courage to tell him what had happened to him, begging him to help write a letter and mail it out to save himself, although this plan scared Beth, but he agreed.
Later, when the sheriff arrives at the manor to verify Solomon's identity and confirms that he is going to take him away, Epps is furious and says he wants to sue the court, Pratt can finally leave, and he and Paz hug and say goodbye.
When he returned home again, the children were all grown up, his wife was old, Solomon had a grandchild, and how difficult it was to reunite twelve years later, he was full of emotions and embraced with his family.