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Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby SultanOrder » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:25 am

A bit underwhelming for me...That kenyan actress was great though.
You mean overwhelming.
check it again...well plain. I was hoping for more
I see, yeah the Filim was so mundane but with torture at ecru corner,I thought it was never going to end. :down:

Some scenes I won't forget is the bottle and the whipping scene Auudibillah may those people burn forever

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby STARKAST » Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:36 am

Another film these Jews are profiting from.
They are profiting again from slavery.
Remember a substantial amount of slave traders in the new world were Jews/Crypto jews/Associates of Jews.

However due to the negro directer its a bit more palatable.

These stupid negros should never rest until they aqquire what is due to them by force or by begging (there condition now)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_acres_and_a_mule

I for one won't hand over my cash to Jew/Zionists/parasites aka hollywood.

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby Cherine » Sun Jan 19, 2014 10:25 am

Watched it a while ago, thought the movie was torture, I don't think modern day audience should be subjected to kind of portrayal of slavery. It's not like we need to see the evils of it to abolition it, it's been Abington for almost 150 years.

I nearly walked out ofthe screening it was so utterly disturbing.
Yeah, I wish that was toned down and the focus on his release i.e. the Canadian abolitionist writing the letters to Solomon's family/friends could have been expanded on a little bit.

I feel like the last half hour of the film could have been done better.

But overall, it's a good film IMO. I think it's a tad overrated but it definitely was gut wrenching. When I first saw Roots like ten years ago, that messed me up more but probably cause I was younger.
You're acting as if these people were your ancestors.


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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby LobsterUnit » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:17 pm

The director used to go drayton manor high school,ealing,London.

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby hydrogen » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:22 pm

The director used to go drayton manor high school,ealing,London.
Most of these people are American and have no idea where that school is, but that's pretty cool.

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby hydrogen » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:24 pm

12 years? I would kill myself in the first 10 minutes if I was in that situation.
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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby hydrogen » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:42 pm

Interesting read, check this out, I saw it not too long ago.


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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby Basra- » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:40 pm

Another film these Jews are profiting from.
They are profiting again from slavery.
Remember a substantial amount of slave traders in the new world were Jews/Crypto jews/Associates of Jews.

However due to the negro directer its a bit more palatable.

These stupid negros should never rest until they aqquire what is due to them by force or by begging (there condition now)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_acres_and_a_mule

I for one won't hand over my cash to Jew/Zionists/parasites aka hollywood.

Star..... :roll: What if the Negroes want to be enslaved? What if they will starve or be in jail if the white man was not there? What if they didn't know how to survive without white men? :roll:

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby hydrogen » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:09 pm

The full film is here in HD for those who want to watch it:

http://tunemovie.com/movie-12-years-a-slave/3649.html

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby hydrogen » Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:10 pm

Northup's great, great, great grandson talks with Aljazeera

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/show ... grave.html

And I just finished watching the movie, there wasn't even any gore apart like 2 whipping scenes but that's it :|

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby Marques » Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:33 pm

Just finished watching it too. I got a bit teary at the end seeing the young gentleman reuniting with his family. Part of me wonders why black folks didn't just mutineer completely. I know many did and formed Maroon communities, but still, there's no honour in being a slave. Especially if you were kidnapped and uprooted from your homeland (Africa).

Solomon Northup :wow: Hero of the Black man.

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby LiquidHYDROGEN » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:31 pm

AAs; enslaved by whites, freed by whites. Says it all really.

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby Marques » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:40 pm

AAs; enslaved by whites, freed by whites. Says it all really.
Man, Black people are just forever victims. Enslaved by the Spaniads, Portugese, English/Americans, even the Turks and the Arabs. Had the Far East not been too far away they would have enslaved them too. They allowed themselves to be reduced to servitude and did nothing for centuries. I Classify them as only one degree above the Subcontinental inhabitants though, these Timajilics be letting themselves get treat like shit in the modern era by lowly Arabs. Shame.

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Re: Just watched "12 Years A Slave"

Postby BoholKing » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:44 pm

Why don't blacks make a movie about the successful Haiti slave revolt that resulted in the establishment of a black nation.


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