Lincoln

Last Christmas I had the chance to see the film Lincoln. Although I have heard a lot about slavery abolition, this is the first film I´ve seen concerning the legal process which took place in the USA. His director, award-winning Steven Spielberg, takes us straight to the Senate of the USA during the civil war. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln, the first republican president, proposed a controversial amendment to the Constitution. His aim was to abolish slavery and to put an end to the civil war. One of the strengths of the film is Lincoln’s struggle to convince the democrats to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. I would recommend this film, even though the plot is not very original, but it’s a historical event. (Asun Sánchez Cea)