@deanduncan63Saw #Lincoln. It’s Spielberg/Kushner’s version of I’m Just a Bill (on Capitol Hill)! The cinema of social studies …
… (cf. the also admirable Amistad). Wouldn’t it be cool if SS swore off dinosaurs forever, & turned that formidable technique, …
… his late-career energies, to the causes of Education and Enlightenment? Not stuffy, mind. Our own Roberto Rossellini!
#Lincoln. Tons of data & process helps the film avoid more/mere hagiography. Instead we have a negotiating, calculating …
… political creature, operating within a calculating, negotiating legislative institution. Cynicism? Reality! Plaster saint? …
… Not at all. (s)aviour, though. Very moving.
#Lincoln. Did anyone else notice this? Reminds me a lot of All the President’s Men.