12 Years a Slave, is a film based on the story of Soloman Northup, a free African-American man who was sold into slavery. 12 Years a Slave shows the hardships Northup faced and the fact that Northup was eventually freed. Henry Stewart writes an article titled "Why 12 Years a Slave is a Bad Movie", in his article Stewart tries to bring down 12 Years a Slave but fails due to its weak assumptions, lack of evidence to support his claim and the general feeling that Stewart didn't fully understand 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 the main character of another film said a lot. Stewart also states that the writer added things to the film that were not in Soloman Northup's autobiography and because of this 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 each slave. In attempting to make his point, Stewart failed to provide any evidence to support his bold claims. At one point in his argument Stewart makes an important point about adding details that could have aided his argument, but Stewart once again fails to provide the reader with any evidence of adding false information. The first real problem with 12 Years a Slave Henry Stewart Raised was what Stewart says is in “an unspoken motto that sounded very similar to something said over and over again in the movie Clerk's. Stewart assumes that just because there is a similarity between Clerks and 12 Years a Slave, the latter of the two films is no longer a good film because it is not original... middle of paper.... ..de le stories of other people who have experienced something similar. This assumption is crazy as it is, but Stewart doesn't even provide any examples of other slave stories that could have been used in 12 Years a Slave. Stewart essentially does the exact same thing that he says he discredited in 12 Years a Slave, and by doing so he is saying that he himself is discredited. The main problem Stewart had with his entire argument was the feeling that he didn't understand what 12 Years a Slave was about. Once the reader reads Henry Stewart's entire argument about 12 Years a Slave, they are left with the assumption that 12 Years a Slave was not a film based on a free man being sold into slavery, but instead that the film was just about slavery in general and it was meant to be a documentary that helped people learn about the struggles of slavery as a whole.