A very good, very interesting film, but I sense more than a touch of Hollywood's obsession with tinkering with history. In this respect, this film falls in the same category as, for example, Mel Gibson's "Braveheart". I found it an incredible stretch, for example, that black private soldiers, most likely illiterate, would have such intimate knowledge of Lincoln's Gettysburg address -- and then have the poise to match words with the president of the United States. Given that Steven Spielberg and his writers have apparently taken substantial liberties with the cultural context, I can't help wondering to what extent the historical and biographical details have also been altered. So go and see this film as a good story, not as history. But also go and see it for the acting; Daniel Day-Lewis' performance as Lincoln is, in my view, Oscar-worthy, in the same category as F. Murray Abraham's performance in "Amadeus", and Colin Firth's performance in "The King's Speech".
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