12 years a slave question

[Anonymous]

I watched it on the plane and missed a couple of bits that are now in dispute with my wife.
Why did Patsy fall out of favor with the plantation owner, I caught that he was having affair with her but then he suddenly turned on her...why?

After she was whipped did she drop the soap or was she holding the coin that Soloman gave the earlier guy to post his letter.

[Anonymous]

She didn't fall out of his favor.... She was punished because she left the property to get soap to bathe since the wife wouldn't give her any.

[Anonymous]

Read the book. Patsy suffered endless brutality at the hands of a psychopath. They all did. The move was based on an autobiography written after Solomon Northrup was freed.

[Anonymous]

Umm. She was never in his "favor". She was a slave girl that was beaten and raped as a child. As she got older, she lost appeal -- and you notice that Patsy's child became his new favorite. The slave owner was a pedophile. The wife hated it, and hated Patsy, and as she got beaten and beaten even more, that whole scene was about making his wife feel better too. There were a lot of dynamics going on there.

And yes, it was the soap that she dropped. In trying to get clean, she was whipped until bloody for her disobedience in leaving the plantation.

[Anonymous]

OP here, Thanks PP's. I may read the book at some point. I wish I would have watched the film in the peace and quiet of my own home and not on a plane.

[Anonymous]

How the f do they put that movie on a plane???

[Anonymous]

I don't think they have plane movies anymore--people watch their own on iPads.

Haven't seen this movie yet but read the book. Powerful stuff.