Ensayo 12 years a slave

Well, I’m going to write about an amazing film called “12 years a slave”. This film narrates

the story of Solomon, an Afro-American who lives in New York in the XIX century. He is a

free person who works, loves the music, and has a family. But everything changes when

he is taken away and sold as a slave. He tries to tell to his owners that he is free but no

one believes him, and all that he gets is violence. The film shows us how Solomon deals

with his new condition.

My favorite character was, obviously, Solomon. Because he fight so hard to have his

family, and her life back, and he never gives up…well, eventually he gives up because he

realized that he would never be a free person again. That moment, when he stops trying

to confirm that he is free and starts to act like an slave, is a heartbreaking scene, because

we can how his hope is over.

The most shocking scene, for me, is when Patsey is being flogged by his “owner”, just

because all she wanted was a little bit of soap. But his owner Edwin Epps who was kinda

obsessed with her, was so pshyco that forced Solomon to hurt Patsey. It was so sad, cruel

and abusive, that broke my heart. She was being flogged, humiliated, and I couldn’t

believe that hers history happened so many times in the past.

My favorite scene was when Samuel Bass talks with Epps and he says that he didn’t have

any rights over a person, because no matter how much he did pay, no one is the owner of

someone. I loved that scene because we finally could see a little bit of hope to the slaves

and to Solomon and because that character was played by Brad Pitt and he is soooo

handsome, anyway I loved that scene and that amazing dialogue.

In resume it was and amazing film, full of emotional moments and that makes you think about

what happened in the history, about racism. It makes you wonder, how did it happened? Why

people didn’t understand that the color of your skin doesn’t mean nothing, don’t make you better

or worse than no one? I think that we still have things to do about slavery, because in some

countries from the third world it haven’t stop.

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