12 Years A Slave

[Bathsheba]

..I'd forgotten what a good film it was, even managed to stay awake all the way through!

Baths
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[NoMercy]

I've never seen it but I might ask OH to stream it.

[RATTER15]

Too traumatic, I couldn't watch it, knowing this stuff actually happened where blacks people were treated worse than animals.

[ummmm]

I watched it for the second time.

I agree with Ratter...it is harrowing knowing it actually happened, and I bet it was much worse.

[Ken4155]

I've read the book and recorded the film last night, Baths, but your post is hardly a recommendation to watch it - "even managed to stay awake all the way through". I have heard that it is rather slow in parts, but is it really that slow?

[Bathsheba]

Not at all Ken! It's rarely the film's fault, it's just that lately
I've been falling asleep for a couple of hours in the evening!

Baths
xx xx

[Ken4155]

^^
Ta for the clarification, Baths. Will most likely watch it one night this week when there's 'nowt on t'box':-)

[Old_Geezer]

It was on at the pub so I caught glimpses of it. Did seem rather violent. Not watched it properly. Can understand why some might avoid it.

[Bathsheba]

Good oh! :)

Baths
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[anneasquith]

I'd never seen this film before. Was harrowing but excellent.

[viv41]

Recorded it. It's had rave reviews.

[pastafreak]

I watched for the first time. Several times I really wanted to turn over. It was heavy,depressing...horrifying even. But I stuck with it and glad I did.
So sad that he did so much after,yet there is no record of how,when,or where he died.

[jennyjoan]

I have recorded it as I was about to eventually buy the DVD of it all the time but kept forgetting.

[Bathsheba]

JennyJoan and others,....it's well worth watching, but it's defo not a Disney film ;)

Baths
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[saintpeter48]

I got a little confused at the end, he walked in his house and his daughter went to him, then his son-in-law holding baby grandson, but his wife didn't say a word, I assume the other lady in that clip was his wife!

[Bathsheba]

saintpeter...his wife had remarried

Baths
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[Bathsheba]

...I will watch the last few minutes of it and get back to you when I have time.....unless any other ABer wants to? ;)

Baths
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[anneasquith]

I didn't realize his wife had remarried.was there another man in the final scene apart from his sil and his son ?

[albaqwerty]

haven't seen it yet.It's on my watch list tho

this is from Wike :
After being enslaved for 12 years, Northup is restored to freedom and returned to his family. As he walks into his home, he sees his wife with their son and daughter and her husband, who present him with his grandson and namesake, Solomon Northup Staunton. The film's epilogue displays a series of graphics recounting Northup's unsuccessful suits against Brown, Hamilton and Burch, the 1853 publication of Northup's slave narrative memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, his role in the abolitionist movement, and the mystery surrounding details of his death and burial.

[Bathsheba]

Sorry, ignore me, I'm talking rubbish as usual ;) Men were son and son-in-law :)

Baths
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[albaqwerty]

Baths, we should have a twaddle-talk competition lol

(lovely to see you posting again xx)