I believe this film was great but hard-hitting. It also showed how slavery was back then. Chiwetel Ejiofor did an amazing job playing as Solomon Northup who is a freeman but he is then taken and sold off in an auction. The editing and different angels were indeed perfect in my opinion. Transitions and the music in the background gave it a great touch. The film might've been pretentious. Its based off of the slavery and a memoir by Solomon Northup. He showed handwork pays off but the film was very heart touching. Those days were bad and cruel , this was a great film to show the audience.