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Mr McQueen, the black British director of “Hunger” and “Shame”, and John Ridley, his African-American screenwriter, tell an extraordinary story of endurance, guile and hope, a story which could easily have inspired a conventional Hollywood melodrama. But they avoid all theshortcuts and clichés which a typical, issue-based film might have employed. There are no grandiloquent speeches to hammer home the message, and no captions or voice-overs to fill in the historical context. The performances are breathtaking, but they’re subtle and complex enough not to demand the viewer’s love or hatred. And, as horrific as the gory violence is, Mr McQueen doesn’t revel in it.
Despite having won the Turner prize for his work as a video artist, he never lets the cinematography or editing draw attention to itself. Perhaps inspired by Hannah Arendt’s concept of “the banality of evil”, he prefers to take the viewer back in time to a period when slavery was mundane; he recreates its day-to-day practicalities and its offhand brutalities; and he leaves it to us to decide how to react. It’s unlikely that a moreaccomplished, mature or crushingly powerful film will be released in 2014.
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