(Image source from: Prolonged applause for 12 Years A Slave})

British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave experienced victory with the audience prize for best picture at the Toronto International Film Festival during Sunday. To move ahead, the film which already been bringing into existence Oscars vibration known to be is based on a firsthand account of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, recalling the horrors of arduously severe labor accompanied by daily dishonor and families distressed greatly.

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Furthermore, the films premiere in Toronto preceding week received a standing enthusiastic reception along with the act of sobbing while some in the audience left early over the film's graphic personation of inexpressibly bad torture of slaves during this period in history. In fact, actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays Northup expressed that the story is a gift from the past to open a discussion, not about race precisely yet regarding human dignity and our freedoms and what we most require in the world.  

Watch out the official trailer of 12 Years A Slave

Certainly, a film class apart!

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