The ability of the director to be able to display such a huge era so comprehensively is evident. The contradiction between negotiation and abolition of slavery is the main line of the story. The protracted war and countless casualties are the pressure to intensify the contradiction, and there are typical characters' reactions to the change. The staggering of the main line and the branch line, and the interweaving of points and surfaces are so complicated that all I can recall after watching the film are the pictures and fragments that are constantly emerging.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It seems so natural. So when the Democrats ask, "Do you think blacks and whites are equal? Are we going to give blacks the right to vote?" I feel overwhelmed. Humans are born with the same sensibility, the same right to survive and the right to pursue happiness, do I need to prove it? If it takes medical scientists to prove that people of different colors do have the same body structure, the same thinking ability, and feel the same sadness and happiness, isn’t it a sad and absurd thing? Thank you Euclid for telling us that some things in the world are self-evident.
Democracy sometimes brings great difficulties to the progress of the times. It allows most people to make their own decisions, and it also made me reflect on what choices I would have made if I were at the same fork in the road. This made me very frightened, because I clearly felt that many times, because of fear of mistakes and disasters, I chose silence and passivity, and also gave up freedom. When I have strong dissatisfaction with social reality, am I on the right side; is my judgment ability enough to support me to follow the pace of the times instead of blindly resenting and opposing?
At the end of the film, Lincoln's back made a deep impression on me. Daniel is a very meticulous actor. At nearly 1.9 meters tall, Lincoln is a giant throughout the film, yet he has always been slightly stooped and staggered a little. He just went out without the cowhide gloves that Mrs. Lincoln had insisted on him. This tall and vicissitudes of life is the curtain call of his life, just as he chooses the justice in his heart relentlessly. I thank the director for not recreating the Lincoln assassination scene with gunshots, blood, and chaos as I imagined, and for giving the film a quiet ending. This was Lincoln's choice, and it was the price he had to pay, which he must have weighed long ago. This ending is the movie's highest compliment to Lincoln.
For a nation to consider the fundamental problems of its own existence with the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people and long-term arguments, this is a huge transcendence in human history, and I have to be in awe. After experiencing such piercing pain, I believe that equality and freedom must have left an indelible mark on this nation.
In fact, when I watched this movie, I kept comparing it to "1942" in my mind, but maybe my subjective color was too strong to comment. In addition, I selfishly wanted to see what the 1988 Reform would look like if it was made into a movie, but when I remembered "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" and the various anti-Japanese dramas recently, I suddenly felt that maybe we should wait another 20 to 30 years before history can be seen reproduced in the movie.
2013-12-20
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