Lincoln-A Man for Our Times ****

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2013)

Excellent production with Daniel Day-Lewis giving a stellar Oscar winning performance as our nation's 16th president.
The film concerns itself with the battle of passing the 13th amendment to the constitution so that slavery could be abolished.
The film well depicts Lincoln's attempts to twist the arms of Democrats. Patronage here is absolutely given a new meaning to.
As Mary Todd Lincoln, Lincoln referred to her as Molly in the film, Sally Field was rather bland with the exception of her emotional outburst at the president when he acquiesces and allows his son Robert to join the army. He even threatens her in this wonderful scene with the insane asylum. It is to be noted that Mrs. Lincoln landed there following her husband's assassination and died there in 1901.
A definite film of morality emphasizing the right thing to do with equality.
As Thaddeus Stephens, Tommy Lee Jones was quite good noting that the amendment needed to be passed so as to sustain equality under the law. Note the prejudice shown by others if their resistance to passage. Not only were they fearful of a freed African-American race, they would see the emancipation of women among other things coming about.