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Movie Review: Examining Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln'

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Lincoln (2012)       Abraham Lincoln:  All we've done is show the world that democracy isn't chaos. That there is a great, invisible strength in a people's union. Say we've shown that a people can endure awful sacrifice and yet cohere. Mightn't that save at least the idea of democracy to aspire to? Eventually to become worthy of? -  Lincoln       Steven Spielberg’s  Lincoln  is a movie that is far removed from  Jaws ,  Close Encounters of the Third Kind,    Raiders of the Lost Ark,   E.T.: The Extraterrestrial  and other crowd-pleasers that made him well-known and successful. It is not a rollicking globe-trotting action-adventure, nor is it a sweet fantasy for kids of all ages.  Instead, the 66-year-old director’s  Lincoln  is closer in tone and genre to his historical dramas  Amistad, Schindler’s List,  and  Munich,  which deal with slavery, the Holocaust, terrorism and characters driven to make moral choices.  Written by playwright/screenwriter To