"But films that are actually about American slavery are vanishingly rare — films that unpick slavery’s all-debasing power-plays, enumerate its everyday horrors, show us the rhythms and rituals that have left it lingering in that nation’s muscle memory. McQueen’s picture, nominated for 10 Baftas this week with Oscars sure to follow, does all of this, and could be the first of a new genre."
In this section of his movie review on Twelve Years a Slave, Robbie Collin said that there is a very small number of movies with the topic of American slavery being produced--meaning movies that truly focus on analyzing the different elements of the degrading tactics used by slave-owners on their slaves to enforce their power, movies that accurately depict the suffering that slaves suffered every single day, and movies that exhibit the brutality that slaves suffered, which is still on the minds of many Americans to this day. Twelve Years a Slave has the opportunity to win "ten Baftas" as well as a few "Oscar" awards because it accomplishes all of the goals previously listed that can make a film based on American slavery truly stand alone from all of the others.
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