By Suzanne A. Marshall from the April 2014 Edition
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender,
“In the antebellum United states, Solomon Northrup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.”
This movie was nominated for 9 Oscars and took home 3, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress. It deserves all of the 
accolades including the first ever win for a black director. It’s been a long time since I have been on the verge of tears but this movie got to me. It is of course a really tough movie to watch and you know this going in. Also, it is a true story of Solomon Northrup who eventually wrote the book.
It is always painful to view the ignorance, depravity and cruelty that human beings can stoop to. This story is really in your face with it. Such heartache. But, well worth viewing of course and there are so many beautiful technical and human elements to this film. I can only think that some of the roles played with astonishing believability must have incredibly hard to perform. Go and see this movie.
IMDB has rated this film an 8.3/10 based on 145,000 viewers. I agree.
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Suzanne A. Marshall hails from western Canada and has been living the good life in Manzanillo over the past 8 years. She is a wife, mom and grandma. She is retired from executive business management where her writing skills focused on bureaucratic policy, marketing and business newsletters. Now she shares the fun and joy of writing about everyday life experiences in beautiful Manzanillo, Mexico, the country, its people, the places and the events.
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