Spielberg's Lincoln

[Eva Elisabeth]

A lot has already been said about this movie here, and I hope I'm not going to bore you now, but I'd like to give you a non-American's view.
To me it appears a bit strange that seemingly so many Americans review the movie as boring, disappointing etc. And, referring to My Name Is Kate's post, I think it is very much a movie about Lincoln the man.
Before I saw it I, knew only little about Lincoln the man -and for sure a great deal less about Lincoln the politician than many or most Americans (although I was always interested in the country and its history). Initially I went watching the Lincoln movie because a) nothing was performed at the theatre or opera that Saturday night and b) I thought I could learn something new. But then DDL's outstanding performance led me to the same sort of catharsis a well-performed tragedy on stage would do, and I had to watch it and to go through it again and again. It caught me like a virus. And it made me so curious about Lincoln the man that I immediately started to read whatever I could get, wanted to know more and more and still do (that's why I'm "here" now). Nevertheless -as far as I observed myself and through the media, even if not all moviegoers here went that crazy, the very most of them were deeply touched, not bored, although -I assume- a lot had only little background knowledge, and even my 73-year-old mother saw it three times.