Lincoln movie Essay Example

Lincoln the movie essay Watching this movie, I was really informed on the life that people lived when Lincoln was president. The movie has many was to captivate viewers with humor, emotions, and how weird it was the guy who played Lincoln, looked so much like him! I noticed that many things have changed in politics since during that time and how people act. First of all, if you paid close attention to the movie you would see how some people in the representative house did not agree with the president on passing the thirteen amendment to abolish slavery and in the hopes of ending the war. People were all for ending the war if it meant giving the blacks freedom, but they were not keen on the whole amendment to just be about ending slavery. It’s confusing to think about, but it all boils down to how they did not care for the blacks, only the war. Another point in the movie that I noticed was how the political parties have different views then they would now. Seeing how the democrats were the group who did not want slavery to be abolished what so ever. Republicans were the ones who wanted to pass the amendment. I’m not picking sides on this but aren’t republicans viewed today as republiCANTS? Democrats today are usually people who have an outlook of freedom, independence, and “let us do what we choose to do” ways. For example Bellingham with all the hippies and nature lovers have a lot of democrats (not disgracing them in any way). The thing is you would no see democrats being like that in the time of Lincoln. Everything seems to have switched to me on what parties view as right and wrong. Verbal fighting was my favorite part in the movie. In our society we use a lot of cuss words when we are mad. In the movie in the debate room, where you see both parties auguring about the amendment, their word choice was very intelligent. When they spoke to stand up for what they believe is right they talked with clarity and words that I don’t even know because they