"Slavery Sir, it's done!"

Rating: 8/10 (30 March 2013)

This is NOT a Biography. It is about Political, Philosophical, and Psychological ruminations and rhetoric about the 13th Amendment. How learned Men being Men of God and good conscience could lack the insight and innate knowing of this Spiritual Truth, that the enslavement for profit and self aggrandizement is wrong makes for a fascinating study.
Of course Lincoln and our Government are the centerpiece and the stage for the debate and it is amusing and insightful to watch these witty and half-witted leaders and lawmakers use language as venomous verbiage and patronizing persuasion.
It is this that is at the heart of this fine Film. It certainly isn't for all tastes and is beautifully back-lit with shades of despair and desperation. The Movie is just entertaining enough with more than a hundred speaking parts performed by some of the best Actors delivering what must be one of the most wordy scripts ever.
But that is what the Film is about. Words and Ideas. It is not so much about Lincoln, his life, Wife, or even his Presidency. it is about the pursuit of happiness in a Nation that had very different views on what that meant and who it was meant for. Timeless and topical.