"Then, when we first see him in chains, hemmed in by shadows in a dingy cell and lit by a thick strip of moonlight, we are shocked for the same reason he is: we see a free man with his movement wrongly restricted. Then his captor comes in, taunts him, calls him nigger and beats him with a wooden paddle until it splits in two."
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films
From Robbie Collin's review on the topic of 12 Years a Slave, Solomon is set a very dark and shady cell, constricted by chains. He is beat up with a paddle, abused, and torn apart with inappropriate words from the master. The formerly free man is hatefully controlled by the guard, which is hard for any audience to experience.
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