I found this movie about as realistic as a Muffets movie. Every slave seemed to have an Oxford education which made it hard to believe. Don't waste your money or time. I can not believe it is up for an Oscar when there were so many better movies out there. I still can not get over all of the great reviews I have read concerning this movie, am I the only person that got this. I saw this with two friends that had the same feelings as myself and if you look at the top movies at the theater right now you will see it is not even in the top five. This should tell you what the people really think of it. So if you must, go see it but keep an open mind and think for yourselves. It doesn't seem very real.