I had heard a lot about the movie, Lincoln, but hadn't seen it yet. Last Saturday night, we took the opportunity to do so. Wow.
What a person learns in history class as a junior in high school doesn't come close to helping understand what really happened. And although the movie is just a movie, the book from which it was made was superbly researched, so I suspect it was pretty accurate.
I took several things from the movie:
1. Democracy is messy.
2. Fighting among Congressmen is nothing new.
3. In Lincoln's time, the Republican party was the forward thinking, progressive one interested in civil rights.
4. Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones are amazing actors.
As we left the movie, Rick Gaskill commented that the way to teach history was through presentations such as this one. Agreed wholeheartedly.
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