Lessons in Littles

At the Liberty Law Blog, Ken Masugi reviews Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and finds it to succeed in "intrsuct[ing] us in prudence—the virtue of choosing what is truly good insofar as it can be realized. In giving this invaluable lesson, the film displays the high and the low of statesmanship of liberty and equality—in particular, we see how the low can be in service of the high, without corrupting what is high."

In summation:

[Screenwriter Tony] Kushner and Spielberg produce a complex but loveable Lincoln who can still unite the country. To be sure, those aware of the director’s and the screenwriter’s politics might see the movie as yet in another series of attempts to appropriate Lincoln to the political agenda of the left. Theodore Roosevelt made an early attempt to hijack Lincoln for the Progressive cause. But if it has any immediate political effect, Lincoln will end any the oafish comparisons between Lincoln and Barack Obama.

And Carl Scott at Postmodern Conservative gives a very favorable review to the film as well.

I am very surprised at just how good the movie was, considering who made it and where it originated.  In a post a while back, I wondered if Abraham Lincoln:  Vampire Hunter would be more accurate.  Boy, was I wrong.  I think I may even have to see Lincoln again before it leaves theaters.