In January 1865, the American Civil War appears close to its end. President Abraham Lincoln, played by Daniel Day-Lewis in this film directed by Steven Spielberg, spends his days in Washington, D.C., with one fixed idea: pushing the Thirteenth Amendment through before the month is out. He worries that his Emancipation Proclamation could be overturned by the courts once peace arrives, and that the slave states, back in the Union, could vote down the amendment. Lincoln believes it must be passed now, so that no one who has been freed falls back into slavery. The problem is that this rush clashes with another urgency. If peace comes too early, the South will have the strength to reject the amendment. If it comes later, tens of thousands of soldiers will keep dying at the front.
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The youngest in the main cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, age 31 at release. The oldest: Hal Holbrook, at 87.
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Main theme: slavery in the United States, Abraham Lincoln
It was released in 19 countries, each in its own language.
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The part assigned to me is to raise the flag, which, if there be no fault in the machinery, I will do, and when up, it'll be for the people to keep it up. That's my speech.
Trust? Oh. I'm sorry, I was under the misapprehension your chosen profession was politics. I never trusted the President, never trusted anyone, but hasn't he surprised you?
[To Abraham Lincoln] No one's loved as much as you, no one's ever been loved so much, by the people. You might do anything now. Don't, don't waste that power on an amendment bill that's sure of defeat.
But all that was not enough for this dictator, who now seeks to insinuate his miscegenist pollution into the Constitution itself!
[To Cabinet members] As the preacher said: "I could write shorter sermons, but once I start I get too lazy to stop."
Nothing surprises you, Asa, therefore nothing about you is surprising. Perhaps that is why your constituents did not re-elect you to the coming term?
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