12 Years a Slave, is a film based on the story of Soloman Northup, a free African-American man who was sold as a slave. 12 Years a Slave shows the hardships Northup faced as well as Northup's release. Henry Stewart writes an article titled “Why 12 Years a Slave is a Bad Movie”, in his article Stewart attempts to tear down 12 Years a Slave but fails to do so due to its weak assumptions, lack of evidence to support his statement and the entire film. feeling that Stewart has not fully grasped the basic concept of the film which he claims is a bad film. Henry Stewart attacks 12 Years a Slave by first saying that it had an unspoken motto that another film's main character said a lot. Stewart also claims that the writer added elements into the film that were not included in Soloman Northup's autobiography and as a result the film lost all credibility because it was no longer based on a true story. The last thing Stewart attacked was the fact that this film did not include the story of every slave. While trying to make his point, Stewart failed to provide any evidence to support his bold claims. At one point in Stewart's argument he makes an important point about adding details that might have helped his argument, but Stewart once again failed to provide the reader with any evidence of the adding false information. The very first problem with 12 years of imprisonment. The slave that Henry Stewart spoke of was what Stewart said was "an unspoken motto that sounded a lot like something repeated over and over in the movie Clerk's." Stewart surmises that just because there is a similarity between Clerks and 12 Years a Slave, the latter film of the two is no longer a good film because it is not original...... middle of paper.... ...of the stories of other people who have experienced something similar. This assumption is as crazy as it gets, but Stewart doesn't even give examples of other slave stories that could have been used in 12 Years a Slave. Stewart is essentially doing the exact same thing he says is discrediting 12 Years a Slave, and because he is doing that, he is saying he is discrediting himself. The major problem Stewart had with his whole argument was the feeling that he didn't understand what it was. That was about 12 years as a slave. Once the reader reads Henry Stewart's entire argument about 12 Years a Slave, you are left with the assumption that 12 Years a Slave was not a film based on the sale of a man free as well as slave, but rather that the film was only about slavery in general and was meant to be a documentary that helped people learn about the struggles of slavery as a whole.