It took me about 10 days to watch this. So perhaps I am viewing it rather more as a mini series then a film. Well I liked it. I liked it a lot. Its a good story, well acted and told. Like Titanic we all know how the story ends. Spielberg wisely avoids retelling Lincoln's biography. Instead the great director focuses on Lincoln battling to pass the 13th amendment. Thus we see Father Abraham rather then the more divisive character of the early days of Lincolns administration Nor does Spielberg try to replay saving Private Ryan, with Mine balls and Springfields. We see a battle at the beginning and the aftermath of one later. The bodies still warm. Its a strong cast. Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens. Daniel Day Lewis, as the great emancipator Jared Harris playing Grant. Surely too fair and too sober! John Gordon Levitt plays Lincoln's son and Sally Field,Martha Todd Lincoln. We see a glimpses of Lincoln's marriage. As they struggle with the aftermath of a loss of a c...
