12 Years a Slave

00:39:55,727 --> 00:39:56,978 Eliza. 521 00:39:57,729 --> 00:39:58,730 Stop! 522 00:39:59,272 --> 00:40:01,149 Stop your wailing! 523 00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:05,028 If you let yourself be overcome 524 00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:06,613 by sorrow, you will drown in it. 525 00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:08,489 Have you stopped crying for your children? 526 00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:13,828 You make no sounds, but will you ever let them go in your heart? 527 00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,001 They are as my flesh. 528 00:40:20,168 --> 00:40:22,170 Then who is distressed? 529 00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:25,173 Do I upset the master and the mistress? 530 00:40:25,340 --> 00:40:27,675 Do you care less about my loss than their well-being? 531 00:40:27,842 --> 00:40:29,177 Master Ford is a decent man. 532 00:40:29,344 --> 00:40:30,470 He is a slaver! 533 00:40:30,637 --> 00:40:31,512 Under the circumstances. 534 00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:33,473 Under the circumstances, he is a slaver. 535 00:40:33,806 --> 00:40:35,683 But you truckle at his boot. 536 00:40:35,850 --> 00:40:37,477 You luxuriate in his favor. 537 00:40:37,644 --> 00:40:39,354 I survive! 538 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,564 I will not fall into despair! 539 00:40:41,731 --> 00:40:43,691 I will offer up my talents to Master Ford! 540 00:40:43,858 --> 00:40:46,653 I will keep myself hearty until freedom is opportune! 541 00:40:46,819 --> 00:40:48,863 Ford is your opportunity? 542 00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:52,408 You think he does not know that you are more than you suggest? 543 00:40:52,575 --> 00:40:54,243 But he does nothing for you. 544 00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:55,578 Nothing. 545 00:40:56,204 --> 00:40:59,499 You are no better than prized livestock. 546 00:41:00,041 --> 00:41:01,417 Call for him. Call! 547 00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:03,711 Tell him of your previous circumstances, 548 00:41:03,878 --> 00:41:06,047 and see what it earns you, Solomon. 549 00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:10,385 So, you've settled into your role as Platt, then? 550 00:41:12,387 --> 00:41:15,556 My back is thick with scars... 551 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,059 for protesting my freedom. 552 00:41:18,226 --> 00:41:19,644 Do not accuse me. 553 00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:24,065 I accuse you of nothing. I cannot accuse. 554 00:41:24,232 --> 00:41:27,151 I have done dishonorable things to survive... 555 00:41:27,318 --> 00:41:30,321 and for all of them, I have ended up here. 556 00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:33,866 No better than if I stood up for myself. 557 00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,744 God, forgive me. 558 00:41:36,911 --> 00:41:39,706 Solomon, let me weep for my children! 559 00:41:50,091 --> 00:41:52,176 <i>"Whosoever, therefore, shall humble</i> 560 00:41:52,301 --> 00:41:54,429 <i>"himself as this little child...</i> 561 00:41:54,929 --> 00:41:58,766 "the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 562 00:41:58,933 --> 00:42:03,855 "And who so shall receive one such little child in my name... 563 00:42:04,022 --> 00:42:05,857 I cannot have that kind of depression about. 564 00:42:06,024 --> 00:42:08,192 "But who so shall offend one of these little ones... 565 00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:11,195 "it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck... 566 00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:16,117 "And he were drowned in the depth of the sea." 567 00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:18,202 Amen. 568 00:42:18,745 --> 00:42:19,912 Amen. 569 00:42:32,717 --> 00:42:34,802 Make them boards flush. 570 00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:36,137 They are, sir. 571 00:42:36,304 --> 00:42:38,306 No, they is no such thing. 572 00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:43,061 They are as smooth to the touch as a yearling's coat. 573 00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:47,565 Are you calling me a liar, boy? 574 00:42:50,485 --> 00:42:52,820 It's all a matter of perspective, sir. 575 00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:55,031 From where you stand, you may see differently, 576 00:42:55,156 --> 00:42:56,783 but the hands are not mistaken. 577 00:42:57,325 --> 00:43:01,579 I simply ask that you use all your senses before rendering judgment. 578 00:43:03,122 --> 00:43:06,334 Oh, my, you are a brute. 579 00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:09,420 You are a dog. 580 00:43:10,088 --> 00:43:12,757 And no better for following instruction! 581 00:43:14,133 --> 00:43:15,134 I do as ordered. 582 00:43:15,218 --> 00:43:16,385 Then you'll be up at daybreak. 583 00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:19,347 You will procure a keg of nails from Chapin... 584 00:43:19,514 --> 00:43:21,516 and commence to putting on clapboards. 585 00:43:21,682 --> 00:43:22,850 Yes, sir. 586 00:43:28,314 --> 00:43:29,982 Make them boards flush. 587 00:43:38,866 --> 00:43:41,369 No, please! Please, Sam! 588 00:43:41,536 --> 00:43:43,871 Where am I going? Where am I going, Sam? 589 00:43:44,372 --> 00:43:46,874 Solomon! Solomon! 590 00:43:47,291 --> 00:43:48,709 Solomon! 591...