12 YEARS A SLAVE: 'Mind Your Wallet'

A clip from Steve McQueen's acclaimed new historical drama 12 YEARS A SLAVE, in select theaters October 18.

[williambarrantes]

I like how the owner assumed the slave was a free man here to shop. The difference a well taught and kind upbringing can do to a person, regardless of race.

[Danwell]

For those that missed it, the shop owner is Mr Parker. The exact same man who travelled to Bayou Boeuf to save Soloman in the final scenes. He genuinely cared for Solomon

[PaulNoticeTV]

It's showing the complexities of the times. Solomon and his wife were living a middle-class free up-bringing, and in walks Jasper, who's never seen a free Black man in his life probably. It's painting a very tense picture of what the times were like.

[julianoropeza-alcaraz]

the look at his face when he sees a free black person is priceless

[elliewilliams]

I feel so bad for the man... he only got a little taste of what it's like to be free...

[ssgootyj]

Lmao
"At what price? "
"We will take it"
👀 this bi...

[Julia-cpnt]

i can’t imagine how the enslaved man felt when the shop owner, even for a few seconds, treated him with dignity as if he was free.

[ominous]

the idea of owning another human being as if they're your pet or property is disgusting.

[mendingwall]

The look on the white mans face when Solomon said "no intrusion".

[daltonhill]

I love the music that plays after he said "no intrusion."

[asanti]

This is such a heartbreaking scene, the look on his face to witness a life he could potentially have.

[ballerlarva]

Jasper walks in and gets treated like a respected customer and called 'sir' by the white man. Then his master whisks him off back into his life of servitude and degradation, man that's rough. Is it ever made clear why he wandered into the store in the first place?

[snakeySnakeybakey]

Parker went all the way down to Louisiana to identify Solomon so that he could return home. Good man.
Edit: I just found out that IRL, Solomon was identified and freed by the son of the man who had manumitted HIS father. Why TF this movie changed such a poetic outcome? I don't know

[jfontanez]

That was priceless the look he gave Solomon to see a free black man

[grammaticalchainsaw]

We gonna ignore how she really just said “we will take it, children come see what your father has just purchased for me.” LMAO IM DECOMPRESSING

[MirrorsBaddly]

I can never express how i hate slavery so much its just so wrong to think that skin color and region can some how change everything so weird makes me sick to think that people had to live through this and be raised like this

[JKumaD]

Imagine this transition period, where someone is walking around because in another state they are a human being and in the other they are a slave, property.

[BryanHobbsMcCalister]

Most of my ancestors were free Blacks. Many stories have come down to us expressing how they understood that even in their freedom they needed to be an example. My family still owns several parcels of land throughout Texas and celebrate family reunion and Juneteenth on them.

[genevievepaquette]

Took me this clip to realize Mr. Parker is the guy who travels down to free Solomon. What a class act.

[s]

Instead of another slave movie, I'd rather have a historical fantasy about a middle class black family during this time period. As important as this story was, I would love a movie entirely like the first half of this scene