Platt or Solomon Northup? The movie reflects a dark side of society. God evidently created mankind equally. But this sense of equality was once tremendously altered by human's sinful nature, selfishness, hatred. The main character choose to be submissive in order to survive. He never gives up despite the reality of being considered a slave and the pressure from the other hopelessly lost and pessimistic slaves. The story itself is extremely depressed with all the realistic struggling and hatreds. One of the most amazing fragments of the movie is its demonstration of spiritual hope in Lord, in a better place. Received an Oscar for playing Patsey, Lupita Nyong'o manages to bring out the best performance of a young, smart, hard working woman but sadly, lost. It is so sad to see this young girl who believes in heaven, in God also passionately believes in death that directly bring her back to where she first created. Michael Fassbender's performance is so monumental. He reflects a typical slaver: brutal, arrogant, hypocrite. Not only a historical memoir, 12 Years a Slave is a reminder to people how the evil and good parallel and stratify the society.