There is no sense of time through the movie
Is it just me or is there no sense of time during the movie? I don't remember a reference to how long Solomon was in captivity other than the films title.
I didn't seem like 12 years to me. If the film was called A Slave and someone told me after i'd seen the film that he was a slave for a couple of months i'd have believed them!
How this won any awards is beyond me. It's a great story that deserved to be told better.