@deanduncan63Saw #12YearsASlave. A calm, clear-eyed, detailed disquisition on the institution of slavery. Also, a time-fractured, hallucinatory horror film …
… Also, mad as hell.
#12YearsASlave says that nominal decencies (the Cumberbatch character), operating in the midst of systematic iniquities, are still, actually …
… indecent.
#12YearsASlave. Is this kind of thing, this kind of Institution, strictly a thing of the past? Listen: http://bit.ly/1ABkggQ
#12YearsASlave. I encourage you to compare this film to poor, dumb, well-meaning, evil-smelling Song of the South.
#12YearsASlave. What consequence, having all of these Anglo/African-Americans working above the line? No sentimentality, no false uplift!
#12YearsASlave. A slow-motion snuff film! Slavery as slaughterhouse, a decades-long death camp, set to the rhythm of the passing seasons …
… Antebellum languor, & a sense of constantly impending, awful jeopardy.