<p>Brad Pitt’s casting as the friendly canadian who saves the day isn’t great. Other than that though this is one of the most technically impressive movies ever made. Production design, music cinematography, direction and everything else is on another level. Some of the best acting ever, Lupita Nyong'o and Michael Fassbender get the crazy dramatic moments while Chiwetel Ejiofor holds down the fort with a more low key but ever present and equally powerful performance. Steve McQueen gets these insane dramatic crying-while-screaming scenes al<br><br>So many insanely dramatic crying-while-screaming acting scenes all shot in one take with complicated action happening both in the background and with the actors themselves.<br><br>What really elevates this movie for me though is how it so thoroughly explores injustice. The evil of slavery on every level is shown without holding back.<br><br>The ending is bittersweet - in a way the main Northrup’s privileged position is actually shown<br>He goes through hell but he manages to escape<br>Patsy and countless others were not as lucky<br><br>Cumberbatch - a ‘good’ man who does nothing to stop the evil system and perpetuates it himself<br><br>In many ways it is still relavant<br>Steve McQueen in his Oscar acceptance speech mentioned how modern day slavery still exists and that he wishes that someday this film will not be able to be made again<br><br>Injustice still exists in the same multi layered embedded form</p>

I think this is the best neo-western of all time, or at least my favourite by far.<br><br>No Country for Old Men? MID. Hell or High Water? FORGETTABLE. Fargo? MEDIOCRE. Breaking Bad? NOT CINEMA.<br><br>Crazy that it’s sometimes considered an action movie when there’s like 5 minutes of actual action total if you break it down and all because the tension and build up to the action is so masterful. The most memorable sequence which most people probably think of when calling it an action movie is literally 10 minutes of suspense leading up to like 10 seconds of release.<br><br>The ‘climactic’ action sequence towards the end again starts with drawn out building of tension and you don’t even really see the action. Instead the confusing perspective of the main character following behind only seeing it in the obscurred background and the aftermath left behind.