12 Years A Slave

I saw this wonderful and touching movie a few days ago! I do understand why it won an Oscar for Best movie. Still it feels so unreal that this actually happened not too long ago. I'm so happy I decided to watch it, and I hope many more will!!
To be honest, there is not much to say... other than, if you haven't watch it, please do!!!

★★★★★

Story
In 1841, Solomon Northup is a free negro working as a skilled carpenter and fiddle player, and living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two men offer him a two-week job as a musician, but they drug Northup and he wakes up in chains, about to be sold into slavery.
Northup is shipped to New Orleans, and is re-named "Platt", the identity of a runaway slave from Georgia. Beaten repeatedly, he is ultimately purchased by plantation owner William Ford. Northup manages to stay on good terms with Ford, a relatively benevolent master. Northup engineers a waterway for transporting logs swiftly and cost-effectively downstream, and Ford presents him with a violin in gratitude. Carpenter John Tibeats resents Northup, and begins verbally harassing him...

Cast
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup
Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey
Michael Fassbender as Edwin Epps
Sarah Paulson as Mary Epps
Benedict Cumberbatch as William Ford
Brad Pitt as Samuel Bass
Paul Dano as John Tibeats
Adepero Oduye as Eliza
Paul Giamatti as Theophilus Freeman
Garret Dillahunt as Armsby
Scoot McNairy as Brown
Taran Killam as Hamilton
Chris Chalk as Clemens Ray
Michael K. Williams as Robert
Liza J. Bennett as Mistress Ford
Kelsey Scott as Anne Northup
Alfre Woodard as Mistress Harriet Shaw
Quvenzhané Wallis as Margaret Northup
Devyn A. Tyler as Adult Margaret Northup
Cameron Zeigler as Alonzo Northup
Rob Steinberg as Parker
Jay Huguley as Sheriff Villiere
Christopher Berry as James Burch
Bryan Batt as Judge Turner
Bill Camp as Radburn
Dwight Henry as Uncle Abram
Deneen Tyler as Phebe
Ruth Negga as Celeste

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