All the characters are real they were all existed at the time period in the 1800s. Steve McQueen did a good job on bringing back the past. He managed to keep his film at the time period; and brought a lot of props that would feel like the things that happened back in the day. He also did a good job on making the characters form his film act and dress like what happened in the history. He worked hard gathering a lot of details on the characters he had searched up in the true story, based on the book. McQueen balanced out the facts he portray in the film for his viewers.
Event Accuracy:
Steve McQueen did a lot of work for this film. He had to go through different emotions, finding a right event to capture in the film and setting up; recreating the details that happened during the time period of slavery. His main focus of the film was showing others how a free black person would go into slavery in a blink of an eye. His events have a different feel into it when watching the film. He …show more content…
McQueen used this to show the cold hard truth of the brutal world. He uses this theme because he always thinks to himself, how he came from this country, what happened to our past, and how did us became who we are. It was the cold truth that their great grandparents were in slavery and their blood is running in them. It shows another theme that ties into “Slavery is a Moral Cancer” is “Love”. It’s the love that made them who they are today and the love of their previous generations wanted their future generation to survive. He uses this theme as a message to the viewers who are watching the film and the ones that know the truth that happened. McQueen used this theme to draw people 's attention and show a lifestyle of a slave and how they are treated. He wanted to show how slave master’s whips a person till their flesh starts ripping and how they get severe punishments whether they did something right or