I just don't Get It???

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2012)

Maybe it's because I'm not American and don't see Lincoln as some kind of political demi-God, but I honestly cannot understand the rave reviews of this.
After the umpteenth "homespun yarn" from DD.Lewis I was ready for walking out of the cinema! It seems Lincoln did not have any knowledge of succinct answers to a question, in this you get a five minute monologue about some old boy from his past instead of a simple YES or NO.
Most of the other characters seemed equally cheesed off with his yarns, although I spent most of my time wondering who these people were, what part they had to play in the film and even who's side they were on, the accents were all over the place, so unless you learned the characters when you studied American history you will have little idea of who's who.
The origins of the Civil war had little to do with freeing Negro slaves...until Lincoln started losing the war and needed more bodies for canon fodder and using slaves was simply a practical choice, but in this movie Lincoln is portrayed as some kindly benefactor to the poor slave...instead of the master of the largest group of slaves in history.
Maybe distorting history helps white Americans sleep soundly soundly despite the entire country being built on slavery, maybe that's why "every school should show this"?