Line #4 Fridge/TwelveYearsASlave


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3	* Reason why Epps's wife is so cruel to Patsey isn't just because of her cheating husband. She probably woudn't care less but... In movie we can see Patsey making dolls, eating candy with Mrs. Shawn and looked like she really wanted some cakes which Epps's wife made. Why? Because she is pregnant! That's why she wanted Solomon to kill her - so her baby woudn't have to live as slave. And later in movie, we can see Epps with little girl and Patsey looking sad at them. Epps's wife was jealous at Patsey, because Patsey could have a baby with Epps.
4	* There is a subtle message in the film against the idiocy of racism: Solomon is a genuinely cultured and enlightened individual. Almost all the Southern whites he meets are not only racist but dumbass hicks with a poorer command of the English language than Solomon does. Epps, the most supremacist man in the movie, is possibly the most moronic character.
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8	[[AC:Fridge Horror]]
9	* Solomon's family was unaware that he had been kidnapped and [[MissingChild they've probably been worrying about him for 12 years]]. At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:he finds out that his children have had a son of their own named after him, meaning that they have never forgotten him.]] But what would've happened if they'd found out that Solomon had died in his life of slavery?
10	* When Eliza had her children taken away from her, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse they are gone for the rest of the movie, and as soon as Solomon is sold to Epps, she is forgotten just like them]]. But knowing what people like Epps are capable of, [[NothingIsScarier you'd probably assume the worst]].
11	* Mrs. Epps is [[GreenEyedMonster obsessed with jealousy]] toward Patsey for being her husband's living sex toy, and is willing to inflict physical abuse on her. Think about it from Patsey's perspective: [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil you're being violated against your will by the abusive slave owner]], and his wife hates you [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming because "you're" taking "him" away from her affections]]. She lashes out at you and proclaims how she wants you gone, yet you have no idea what you did wrong. Is it no wonder Patsey became a BrokenBird and [[ICannotSelfTerminate desperately begged for Solomon to kill her]]?
12	* Consider how horrible a person Epps and his wife are in this movie. Now remember that they were even worse in real life.
13	* Edwin Epps is seen holding a little slave girl and jovially playing with her, while Patsey looks on with a mixture of sadness and worry. Is he grooming his future victim?
14	* The historical Solomon disappears from the historical record after 1857, four years after gaining his freedom, and it's unknown how he died. Given how influential his memoir was on the abolitionist movement, and how embarrassing it was to the slaveowning establishment, it's entirely possible he was lynched (though one letter written by a secondary source in the 1930s claims he was active in the Underground Railroad during the Civil War).
15	* Epps' rape of Patsey. She doesn't scream or fight back. She just lays there with a deadpean look in her eyes and waits for it to be over. Just how many times has this happened to her before she decided to just lay there and take it?
16	* Solomon attempts to pay an overseer to contact authorities up North. The man not only betrays him, but sells him out to Epps, who comes close to stabbing Solomon with a knife. What if Solomon hadn't been able to convince Epps he wasn't lying.

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