Extended Reading
  • Clyde 2022-01-25 08:06:28

    "Lincoln": Intercepting the Great Fragments

    (Written by Zhi Ning on January 4, 2013)
       Every country has its own historical figures that have been sanctified. If this matter is left to the United States, then it must be Lincoln and Washington. The narrative tone of the film "Lincoln" is plain and objective, without the lack of rationality...

  • Summer 2022-01-25 08:06:28

    Spielberg is finally alive

    This version of Lincoln is too tall to fit in. Born into a poor family, he seemed clumsy and overwhelmed; in front of dignitaries, he responded eloquently and wields his wrists; in front of ordinary people, he was sensitive and fragile, appearing powerless and tired. The movie still took care of...

  • Jevon 2022-03-22 09:01:27

    Calm down and savour these long and large arguments, and you will be moved by the shining idealism; the layout is neat and elegant with light; it just seems too regular and slightly flat.

  • Theo 2022-03-24 09:01:30

    Actually this movie is not good to look at~~~ It’s a personal show. I seem to see Jesus in Lincoln’s shadow. I carefully read about the passage of Article 13 of the U.S. Constitution Amendment, which is really not easy and it is in that kind of background. I have read the House of Cards and I know how difficult it is for the Senate to pass every vote. I hope I can participate in such a struggle one day.

Lincoln quotes

  • Thaddeus Stevens: As long as your household accounts are in order, Madam, we have no need to investigate them.

    Mary Todd Lincoln: You have always taken such a lively, even prosecutorial interest in my household accounts, Mr. Stevens.

    Thaddeus Stevens: Your household accounts have always been so interesting.

    Mary Todd Lincoln: Yes, thank you, it's true. The miracles I have wrought out of fertilizer bills and cutlery invoices, but I had to. Four years ago, when the President and I arrived, this was a pure pigsty. Tobacco stains in the carpets, mushrooms sprouting from the ceilings! And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements. As if your committee joined with all of Washington waiting, in what you anticipated to be our comfort in squalor, further proof that my husband and I were prairie primitives, unsuited to the position to which an error of the people, a flaw in the democratic process, had elevated us.

  • Thaddeus Stevens: How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men ARE inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot, red blood! YOU are more reptile than man, George, so low and flat that the foot of man is incapable of crushing you!

    George Pendleton: How dare you!

    Thaddeus Stevens: Yet even YOU, Pendleton - who should have been gibbetted for treason long before today - even worthless, unworthy you ought to be treated equally before the law! And so again, sir, and again and again and again, I say, I do not hold with equality in all things, only with equality before the law!