He should just shut up and do what he’s told. He meets two men, who explain that no matter who he was and what he has, it doesn’t matter now. He’s given the name Platt and put on a ship to Louisiana with other slaves. and play in their traveling band, as he makes his living playing violin. He’s introduced to two ‘circus’ men, who offer him a lot of money to travel with them to Washington, D.C. While his wife goes off to work for two weeks, Northup tries to find something to do. He is a well-respected, well-educated man. In 1841, Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), is a free black man living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. The story is just fantastic, as you really can’t believe someone actually went through it. While I didn’t particularly care for the direction of the film, with the long, drawn-out scenes, I did enjoy the story and thought the acting was phenomenal. Based on the 1853 autobiography by Solomon Northup, the film tells the story of how he was kidnapped in 1841 in Washington, D.C.
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