Abrahams cussing
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12-25-2012, 10:03 PM
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RE: Abrahams cussing
(12-25-2012 09:32 PM)My Name Is Kate Wrote: Not sure which post(s) the above post was directed at. Kate, I just had a total different impression of the movie and didn't see it as iconoclastic at all. The Lincoln in the movie is a man of action that wishes to finally blot out slavery and is willing to go to extreme lengths to do it. Remember too this is not a documentery. It is a film, so there is a bit of freedom a screen-writer gets. I did not like the scene where Lincoln slapped Robert and I think they portrayed him as too much of a prig. The Lincolns got married because Mary was pregnant theory was floated by Lincoln scholar Wayne Temple in his "From Skeptic to Prophet." It has been accepted by Michael Burlingame in his huge two volume biography of Lincoln. There is some circumstantial evidence of it. Yet one could never prove it, either way. I go with the Scottish verdict, "not proven" myself. Though, if true I disagree with the idea that Mary was "trapping" Lincoln. On the other point of violence... Check out this link: http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives...t-country/ While America is a far more violent country than other First World countries we have had a 30 year decline in violence. It peaked in the late 1970s. And remember other First World countries with the low violence levels have the same violent popular culutre. In fact, in some ways places like Japan have a more violent popular culture than we do, but have very little real violence in the country. What has increased in America over the past few years is mass shootings and that is beyond I think the perview of a Lincoln forum. |
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