"Of course the language and violence in 12 Years a Slave makes you wince, but the brutality here is as sleek as a knitting needle, and slips between your ribs to get at you somewhere deep, beyond simple expressions of disgust or disbelief. McQueen has no intention of turning his film into a Western liberal guilt-trip — he doesn’t have to. What we see speaks for itself. The entire nation, south and north alike, is in the grip of communal insanity."
According to Robbie Collin's review on 12 Years a Slave, the harsh language and the brutal violence in 12 Years a Slave causes the toughest of people to cringe, but these harsh acts are meant to be a punch in the stomach, to express an answer the "why?"s. The purpose of the film is not to make us feel bad that slavery carried out the way it did, it doesn't have to be. It all plays out before our eyes. The Confederacy and the Union alike, all living in the midst of universal madness.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/06/03/12-years-a-slave-review-this-at-last-really-is-history-written-w/
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