I recently saw the movie Lincoln. Had to. My curiosity won. It was up for many academy awards and won best actor. I am not a documentary viewer. I find reporter style storylines excessively boring. They contain restricted details which are overly hashed and repeated, interviews from weeping people, and hype from the reporter. No, this format may have been enjoyable once or twice for me, but I have become cold to them. On the other hand I find a true-to-life portrayal much different. Like the documentary, it focuses on a restricted segment, but unlike the documentary, all aspects of the portrayal are given as they are. The event is played out as the people experienced it, not reported (told). Portions may be boring, powerful, thoughtful. Spellbinding. Intuitive. And because the event is shown as it was, we walk with the person. I walked into the theater remembering the night I stood in line for the movie Titantic . Two women ahead of me chatted and laughed with each other while ...
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