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New film: "12 Years A Slave"
Jan 9th 2014 / the Economist
EARLY in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years A Slave”, a Louisiana plantation-owner returns home with the two slaves he’s just bought, a man and a woman. Waiting on the veranda, his genteel wife notices that the woman is crying, and asks why. “Separated from her children,” sighs the husband, not unsympathetically. “Can’t be helped.”

Those last three words are the key to Mr McQueen’s devastating film, in that they, like so many other sequences, present slavery as the norm: long-established, legal and legitimized by scripture. To its mid-19th-century characters, there’s nothing unusual about keeping human beings as property, and no way that the institution can be changed. In the preceding scene, a jovial slave-trader (Paul Giamatti) is showing customers his wares. “This is a nigger of considerable talent,” he remarks, but there’s nothing in the way the line is spoken to suggest that anyone in the shop might be shocked. The trader sees his terrified, naked merchandise as no different from any other commodity.
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