Movie Review: Examining Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln'
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, t...