13th Amendment

Rating: 9/10 (16 November 2012)

Lincoln focuses on Abe Lincoln's trials and tribulations while trying to pass the 13th amendment that would set the African American citizen free from slavery for all time. While there is a good bit of historical focus, there was room for more that would have fleshed out his struggles, but that would have made the movie way too long. There are two things about this film that I really enjoyed: Daniel Day Lewis is marvelous as Lincoln and should garnish an Oscar for this film. The second is while not fully expressed the film shows how corrupt, self-centered, pro-slavery, anti-Negro that the Democratic party was during that time--and if you read history for hundreds of years. There was a lot more atrocities the Democratic party did to the African American that could have been explored, but again that would have made the movie too long. You have to understand that to make a movie in the time constraints, that there is only so much that can be put into the film. Some nice history points were brought into the movie and it allowed you to see Lincoln as a human being.