Killing Lincoln

[MaddieM]

(02-08-2013 08:07 PM)Josh M Wrote:  Anyways I would be interested to hear people's thoughts on the topic of how opinions and disparate historical records factor in, specifically in the context of portraying them on film where you must make specific, singular choices (as opposed to a book where one can leave it as an exercise to the reader's imagination to deconflict).

I'm always a bit wary of history as portrayed in film. It's often twisted, manipulated, glamourised or sexed up, and seems to be what movie makers think the viewers want to see, rather than just being honest...or perhaps it's about number crunching. So it's really refreshing when you get to see something that gives you a 'warts and all' perspective and keeps to the truth. I don't there's any movie on earth that can have the same impact as one's own imagination when reading the pages of a book.