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Lincoln
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Writer: Tony Kushner; Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Producer: Kathleen Kennedy; Jonathan King
CGiii Comment
There are a few academics, still, in this world who would brand Lincoln as a war criminal...those voices are rarely heard.
The revision of history reveals many things that many would prefer to remain un-revealed. The people who do this 'revealing' are called Revisionists...a term that has become imbued with criminal insinuation.
Truth has always been, still is and always will be the victim...when powerful men and women desire, defend and fight for the preservation of their own attained power.
Speilberg and Kushner certainly regard themselves to be powerful men - warping and flaunting fact for their own (financial) gain...Lincoln - The Movie is a prime example, at its most insidious, of Hollistory...when false accounting is, inexplicably, acceptable.
These two men had the audacity and clinging conceit to change the names of those politicians who voted against Amendment 13...in other words, those who wanted to preserve slavery. This is just one of the many 'adjustments' to history that the revisionists: Kushner & Spielberg deemed suitable for public consumption.
Not a mention of the proposed black repatriation to Liberia, no reference to Lincoln's 1862 speech...this is not history, this is creative, criminal censorship.
Abraham Lincoln ferociously fought for power - he ferociously fought to keep it...at the futile expense of 1000s and 1000s of lives...that's the definition of a war criminal.
As a film...ineptly verbose, long, dark, stagnant, claustrophobic, emotionless...with some fine performances
The ending...without a shadow of a doubt, the feeling of being cheated will be overwhelming.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.
Cast & Characters
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln;
Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln;
David Strathairn as William Seward;
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Lincoln;
James Spader as W.N. Bilbo;
Hal Holbrook as Preston Blair;
Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens;
John Hawkes as Robert Latham;
Jackie Earle Haley as Alexander Stephens;
Bruce McGill as Edwin Stanton