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Topic History of: 12 Years A Slave - a really bad film Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Anon
Is it wrong of me to have the opinion people in Britain working down the mines,in factories, the navy and work houses had it pretty much equally as awful in the 18th and 19th centuries as African slaves?
hedda
no longer slaves but in jail.
JK2006
He's also one of the producers.
andrew
They obviously used Brad Pitt for one reason.
Did he have to put on a false accent ?
JK2006
It's sad; it's quite a good story and the book sounds good but the film is so one dimensional it bores and negates sympathy in the characters which are not well defined. There's a good scene between a girl and our hero, when she's trying to persuade him to kill her (early assisted suicide) and he, of course, refuses. But we don't care about either of them because they are cardboard cutouts.