Of course the language and violence in 12 Years a Slave makes you wince, but the brutality here is as sleek as a knitting needle, and slips between your ribs to get at you somewhere deep, beyond simple expressions of disgust or disbelief. McQueen has no intention of turning his film into a Western liberal guilt-trip — he doesn’t have to. What we see speaks for itself. The entire nation, south and north alike, is in the grip of communal insanity. Original Article
This paragraph written by Robbie Collin is part of a review on 12 Years A Slave directed by Steve McQueen. Here he is discussing the brutality and the vulgarity in the movie and why it needed to be so vulgar. 12 Years A Slave was using this degree of speech and gore not to over dramatize it or open the movie to more audiences, but because that was just what happened. It was used because it was trying to be as honest and as accurate as possible, even if it was too much to handle for some. Because the movie wasn't made just to remind us all that slavery, segregation, and concurrent racism is not-humane, but to try and allow those who were never there, and have experienced nothing like this, to be able to easily visualize and gain an understanding of what happened, not just know what happened.
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