This movie monumentally failed to depict a 12 year span. It could have just as easily have been '2 months a slave,' the only discernible difference, with regards breadth of time, coming only at the end, with his wife and children being clearly older upon re-acquaintance with them. No such sign elsewhere in the movie. No considerable timescale portrayed whatsoever! Really spoiled it for me! Perhaps the carriage he returned home in was a former model of the tardis, leaping him 11+ years further in to the future, on route. The payoff at the end was somewhat subdued by the small scraps of further information posted in the end credits, but of course, that's how it was! For me, in comparison to Django Unchained, this film was largely forgettable.
(in reply to Empire Admin)