LINCOLN: B
The first thing I do when watching a film like this, and what I do throughout the film's entirety is question its historical accuracy. I'm not schooled enough on the subject to make many comments on it, although I know from various history courses in both high school and college that Lincoln's push for the 13th amendment as well as his announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in the first place was a strategy of tactic, much more than it was one of integrity.
Yet it makes for a better film to romanticize through a moral struggle both inwardly and outwardly, than it does to strictly go by the facts of strategical politics.
A who's who cast of Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, Jared Harris, and Joseph Gordon Levitt accompanied by an assortment of underrated actors. Quite the juxtaposition to see in the same scene the actor many consider to be the best of our times Daniel Day Lewis, to who I consider to be one of the most underrated of our times, Bruce McGill.
Even Raynor Schiene makes a brief appearance.
The script was written beautifully, although it was much more appealing to the ear than it was to the eye. This would have made a good radio piece that I could have easily listened to on a drive from Des Moines to Iowa City.
