I dont go to a lot of movies for a lot of reasons.  Too loud, other movie goers are bothersome, etc.  However, I went to a doozie yesterday.  My brother-in-law advised Dorothy to run, not walk to see “LINCOLN”.  I concur, it was the best movie I have seen in 20 Years.   If Daniel Day-Lewis doesnt win an oscar for best actor, then they should discontinue giving the award.  He was mesmerizikng.

It was about the civil war era and there was a battle scene, but it was about more than that.  It showed politics as it was, as it is, and as it will probably always be.  It shows the art of the deal that probably has to be utilized in order to get anything done.  It shows the lobbyists as a necessary evil.  There was sublety in almost every phase of the movie so you have to keep your mind open.  You have to pay attention.  The writer, and I do not know who it was, was brilliant in his use of  scenes that allowed us to go back to our school book knowledge of Lincoln.  Lincoln reading books by the light of a wood fire in the fireplace.  Hint.  Euclid.

I have no idea whether the wordage used by the actors is genuine but they words they used and they way they spoke was as believable to me as if I had been there.  You could hear brilliance, you could feel torment and anguish, all through the way the actors, well, acted.

So, my advice to each of you is for you to spend 3 hrs in a movie theatre and see how our nation was reunited.  It will give you a completely different feeling about the times than you might have previously had.  It did me.

Chuy the Movie Critic