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1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts) Sun Jul 12, 2015, 05:27 PM Jul 2015

Okay ... I just started watching ...

12 Years a Slave ... more to follow.

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Okay ... I just started watching ... (Original Post) 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2015 OP

Have you read the book? nt femmocrat Jul 2015 #1

Hey 1SBM! I haven't seen it & do look forward to reading your posts misterhighwasted Jul 2015 #2

I tried... handmade34 Jul 2015 #3

Excellent film, just as a film. kwassa Jul 2015 #4

I turned it off 1/2 hour into it ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2015 #5

I read the book - compelling but the movie was a . . . JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #6

Oh - and for something less heart breaking but 'reality' JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #7

We watched Belle, last weekend ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2015 #8

Ahh - that was a key point there JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #9

Well ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2015 #10

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

1. Have you read the book? nt

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 05:30 PM

Jul 2015

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)

2. Hey 1SBM! I haven't seen it & do look forward to reading your posts

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 05:36 PM

Jul 2015

So please do post your thoughts after you've seen it.
As I have much respect for you.

handmade34

(22,756 posts)

3. I tried...

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 05:55 PM

Jul 2015

couldn't see it through

kwassa

(23,340 posts)

4. Excellent film, just as a film.

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 11:51 PM

Jul 2015

My undergraduate degree is in filmmaking. I thought the way McQueen told the story was original and surprising.

The history was excellent but I knew most of it. Still a powerful film.

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

5. I turned it off 1/2 hour into it ...

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 11:56 PM

Jul 2015

I will make another effort, another time.

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

6. I read the book - compelling but the movie was a . . .

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 04:50 AM

Jul 2015

Horror flick. Understand I love American Horror Story - over the top, campy, silly special effects -

But I still have to watch it sitting behind The Gio.

I've yet to see 12 years fade in to fade out and I really have no desire to see it.

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

7. Oh - and for something less heart breaking but 'reality'

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 08:09 AM

Jul 2015

Look up the movie Belle. Overshadowed that year by 12 years - but one of those little stories that get lost in the bigger slave trade issues.

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

8. We watched Belle, last weekend ...

Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #7)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 08:18 AM

Jul 2015

I liked it ... It pissed me off; but, I liked it.

Belle's treatment kind of put to rest the economic justice will bring social justice argument ... Even though she could buy and sell her cousin (and her entire family) and there was the suggestion that Belle was brighter and more accomplished than her cousin, Belle still couldn't eat with the family when company came.

(Yeah ... I know ... That was England; America is different!)

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

9. Ahh - that was a key point there

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #8)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 09:25 AM

Jul 2015

My husband picked up on the 'she's got more money than god' point - and could buy and sell the rest of them - but he also pointed out -

Was any place in the world safe for Belle at that time? If she had picked up and left? Where would she have gone? Where COULD she have gone?

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

10. Well ...

Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #9)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:45 AM

Jul 2015

12 Years showed, certainly not the New World.

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