Depicting the pain, mental torture and physical torture of the slave trade is a daunting task, I believe Steve McQueen gave it a good effort. I my self will never know what it was like being a slave in those times, but Solomon Northup did. His story is such an important piece of history as not many slaves ever had the chance to tell there story. Through research Solomon's story that McQueen depicted is accurate, but I believe it could have been even more accurate. For example, the first scene never even happed, and I don't think Solomon would have wanted a movie based on his story to have added in things especially a scene being unfaithful to his wife. Lots of historical films tend to skip over the violence or cut it just before something violent happens to leave you to fill in the blanks, but 12 years a slave shows the violence and pain these innocent people had to endure, which I believe should be done. People's eyes need to be opened to the good and bad of history. I think McQueen made a good choice using Solomons story to make a film. It's a rare piece of history since many slaves could not read or write and Solomon wanted his story told so he could make a difference overall the story was done well and got a message across.

The acting in this movie was top notch the actors took the importance of these characters seriously and depicted the emotion and personality of each character very well. Everything looked very accurate to what history has told us about slavery in terms of the clothing the beautiful places that these horrendous acts took place. The film was very well shot the cameraman and director took unique shots. I found it interesting how they would shoot a scene full of pain the shoot a shot of the beautiful Georgia landscape. Overall this film was very well done,