Movie report: Lincoln
Movie report: Lincoln Steven Spielberg deliberately delayed the release of this movie until after the 2012 presidential elections, which was a shrewd decision. If I had seen the movie before the election, I would have spent 90% of my time wondering who represented who in modern politics, rather than only 10%. The movie “Lincoln” is based on the book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Lincoln was elected President out of 4 serious candidates, and had the savvy to enlist some of his adversaries to help with his administration. Seward, for example, became his Secretary of State. This kind of political shrewdness appears throughout this movie. Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln is fascinating. This man at times is as gentle as a woolly lamb, at other times a steely colossus of power. He cracks low wheezes one moment, and quotes Shakespeare and the Bible the next. He is tall and ungainly to the point of farce – you can unders