Lincoln

 It's award season, and unfortunately that means I have to watch good movies. That's not really what this blog was created for. This blog was meant to be a venue that would allow me to watch crap movies and complain about them. So there's that old saying that 'man cannot live by crap alone', and I can't force my family to watch crappy movies and I have to actually pay attention to them and come up with something insightful to say. I'm not one for insight. My strength, if you could call it that, could probably be summed up with 'casual bitchy crankiness'.

Anyway, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is meditative and atmospheric; where the majority of the film's battles take place in the shadowy recesses of the White House as hazy sunlight streams in through windows, giving the scenes within a dreamlike, idyllic quality. The cinematography is shot in an way that is reminiscent of an old oil painting. It looks antiquated; but unlike some other recent Lincoln movies, it's never showy and seems natural. Lincoln is an actor's film, with an eloquent, lyrical script by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner. Every actor, especially 2012 Oscar nominees Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, and Sally Field, play their parts as if they alone can save the Union. Even though he's already won two Best Actor Oscars, it's still astonishing to see Daniel Day-Lewis disappear into a role. Always attempting to charm with an anecdote, Lewis' Lincoln is down-to-earth, relatable, and charitable. And he's funny! It'll be hard to lose the Oscar for this film.