[tanknetter]

Read LZ Granderson's piece on it

I'm not sure I have any interest in spending my money to see and support a movie that Liberal commentators like Granderson are using to reinforce their narrative.

To wit:

... To see "12 Years" is to see the full story of what those who fought under the shadow of the Confederate flag gave their lives to keep. To see "12 Years" is to see that the claim that the black people who picked cotton in the field with the star of "Duck Dynasty" were "happy" is a racist insult.

The movie is an unsanitized portrait of a nation's shameful past. It is two hours of breathing in the antebellum South and then walking out of the theater trying to pretend the stench is all gone.

[Zhang Fei]

To see "12 Years" is to see that the claim that the black people who picked cotton in the field with the star of "Duck Dynasty" were "happy" is a racist insult.

The moronic commentator you quoted doesn't seem to realize that slavry ended 150 years ago, whereas Robertson picked cotton alongside free blacks.

[ladyjane]

Does the movie show the thousands of blacks who were slave OWNERS?

If not, the movie is not accurate.

[Nepeta]

The movie is an unsanitized portrait of a nation's shameful past. It is two hours of breathing in the antebellum South and then walking out of the theater trying to pretend the stench is all gone.

I don't need a movie released in 2014 to inform me that slavery is an abomination.

I think what the times call for is a movie revealing slavery as it is practiced TODAY, by whom, and whom they continue to enslave.