JUST got home from seeing "LINCOLN". Trust me. SEE IT. Here is why:

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78. Overall, you get a feeling of a man who we would say today is "living with depression".

That is the part where I think DD-L did a phenomenal job. He presents Lincoln as a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders, cloaked in sadness and possibly guilt for the death that they've lived through, but one who is determined to see his cause to the finish, for the sake of his family and his country.

The scene where he rides through a battlefield, I could just imagine that for a moment, part of him must have second-guessed every decision leading up to the declaration of war, and asked if there was a way it could have been avoided.

There is a line near the end where Grant mentions that Lincoln looks like he's aged a decade in a year. After watching the movie, I wonder if most of the presidents don't feel the same once their terms are finished.