The Story of Solomon Northup

12 eld a Slave is a British-American film based on the autobiography by Solomon Northup in 1853. Every turn of fortune seems to s extirpate Northup into a hair-raising carriage of enslavement from nonpareil malicious owner to the nigh. His except solace was the possibility and want of being reunited with his family as a free piece once again.\nUntil 1841, Solomon Northup had lived in the North; a free black man with a wife and children. He was educated and intelligent and robbed of his citizenship when a string of bad deal and malicious people drop him into slavery. In the film, the disturbing facial expression of his kidnapping will come apart even the hardest of souls. After his abduction and compulsion into slavery, Northup ended up in the deep South. Here, he spends the next twelve years of his manners trying to keep remove of his dignity - and his life.\nOne of the about captivating aspects of the movie is the some(prenominal) different antagonists and allys he encounters through-out his journey to freedom. He meets several slaves along the way, who allow for a comfort organise by a plebeian bond of suffering that helps him deal out with daily life. However, the most luminary characters were the slave owners that had no end to their evil. While many of them were uneasy creatures with no sense of humanity, on that point was one saving fancify; William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch). He non only saves Solomons life but adheres to his Christian root on his plantation.\nBy the ordinal year, it seems there is no foretaste for Solomon to escape the hell that has been unjustly bestowed upon him, but finally there is a light at the end of the tunnel. When Solomon runs into Samuel Bass (Brad Pitt) a Canadian abolitionist, he sets the communication channel that changes his life forever. Bass agrees to send off a rescue stock to Solomons home-town, a championship that leads Solomon to his long awaited rescue. not much later, a owing(p) gentleman from his native youthful York comes to liberate him. After a painful, disheartening twelve years, he is...