Honestly Abe —
Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis paints a complex portrait of the United States’ 16th president in ‘Lincoln.’ Rather than a sweeping biographical narrative, the film covers only the last four months of Abraham Lincoln’s life, including the fight to pass the 13th Amendment, the end of the Civil War and his assassination.
It’s been said that anyone who writes a biography about Abraham Lincoln — of which there are thousands — does so with one eye on the present, and that principle appears to apply just as easily to film.
