12 years a slave makes the spectator feel it in their own skin. Steve McQueen brings us a bunch of well-known stars and makes a brilliant movie where Mr. Ejiofor shows an impressive skill as an actor.

The share-out also shows Michael Fassbender doing another amazing performance as the lord of the cotton fields, showing the cruelty and madness the lords of those years could show to their slaves. Also having great appearances like Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Brad Pitt, the movie reflects the hard living (if we can name it like that) of the African American people those days.

The movie, like The Butler did, shows how the USA has changed in the last centuries, not even the bad things but also the good ones like the love and the ensemble of the people in such a difficult situations.

The only reason i did not give a 10 star rating is just because i think few sequences could be cut, it larges the movie just looking at the landscape, what i think, in my opinion, could be expendable.