Late Pass: 12 years a slave was boring

[newworldafro]

Extra late pass

I'm late as shiit... i just watched 12 Years a Slave for the first time like 5'o'clock in the morning eating a big steak omelette and pancakes from IHOP... .......... i ain't cry, but when Platt got his homie from Saratoga ot get him off the plantation and the chick he was cool with hit the ground...I might have shed a tear ...

That was shiit was interesting and crazy...... sure I know a lot about AA slavery ....those conditions ... that dehumanization mayne ..... i was really struck by the interaction with the Native Americans.......but then just the vileness of human character and "reasoning" by using the Bible to maintain "obedience" ....... was DEEP AS FUUCK..... like cotdamn...... .... even though I know all this shiit, it was the presentation of it that had me like .

 

[Rigby.]

Late as fukk, but I'm finally getting around to watching it. Good lord, this is something. It's damn near impossible to not feel anger after watching the film. I really don't even know how to summarize it. It's like story became secondhand to simply life. You're not really following a defined timeline so much as you're just going thru fukkery at a free forming pace. It really does give a great feel onto how devastating plantations truly were. Solomon is THAT guy as far im concerned. Lupita....maan.

As far as movies go, it's just an incredible piece of work. It feels like it pushed the culture forward at the time, and potentially gave people the historical fuel they needed to put into context how fukked up the beatings they were witnessing in real time.

You can find holes in how subservient the black man is made, but that's how any decent rendition of slavery time events is gonna be. I like that this came out as a "b-sides" to Django, as I REALLY feel like Django was necessary to give us the sensibilities that there was some positive to this whole slave era fukkery....that not everybody wasn't just caping, people actually fought back. Even though it took me 4 years between watching the two, I feel like I got a real yin yang experience here knowing I saw these two films.

 

[BLΔCK⁂W⊙LF]

I haven't seen it, and I never will. I am not about to watch Blacks get brutalized for damn near 3 hours. It's sick and depraved torture porn for White people.

We only get shown as downtrodden and brutalized, then saved by a white person, while they show themselves as gods overcoming impossible odds, and arbiters of righteousness and reason.

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

I watched it because a friend I'm in a band with is in the movie playing violin on one of the scenes. Though, now that you mention it, I can't remember much about the story myself either