[ThaVirus]

12 Years a Slave.. If you're into that kind of thing, it's worth a watch.

Spoiler!

Most of the movie is pretty jarring, as you might expect from a movie based on that time period, but I didn't have much trouble brushing most of the more emotional scenes off. It wasn't until the scene after Patsy's whipping when she's being attended to that I felt chills. The women are crying as they dress her wounds, she writhes in pain at every touch, all of the men sit in the background with their heads down, and she looks up at Solomon.. And he cries. At that point I'd imagine she was wishing she were dead and he probably wished he could go back and oblige in her request to end her life.

Then shortly after, at the very end of the film when Solomon sees his family again and they huddle together as he apologizes. Damn. That was rough..