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What parents need to know Parents need to know that Steven Spielberg 's Lincoln isn't a biographical chronicle of Abraham Lincoln's Daniel Day-Lewis life in office but rather a political drama about the passing of the 13th Amendment and the end of the Civil War. Continue reading Show less. Stay up to date on new reviews. Violence: Soldiers engage in fierce hand-to-hand fighting with characters punched, stabbed and shot. Gruesome images of maimed and dead corpses strewn across a battlefield are seen.
Blood oozes from a wheelbarrow containing severed limbs that are dumped into an open pit. A man attempts to shoot another on the street. A characters lies on a blood-soaked pillow after being shot. Injured soldiers are seen in a hospital. A couple argues loudly. Language: The script contains two strong sexual expletives used in a nonsexual context, racial slurs, infrequent scatological slang, numerous curse words and some terms of Deity. Other tobacco use is also shown. Characters drink on numerous occasions.
A woman tells an employee to get a man drunk so he will sleep better. Lincoln asks whether we choose to be born or are fitted to times in which we are born. What do you think? Could someone else have accomplished the same achievements as Lincoln?
How does Lincoln deal with his grief in comparison to his wife? Why does he feel he has to maintain a more stoic approach to the loss? Why does he encourage Mary to put on a happy face? What extra challenges does the President have to deal with because of his home life? Abraham Lincoln was a great orator, and his work during the Civil War is some of his most famous. Speeches and Writings is an excellent resource for exploring his rhetorical style. Much of this film is concerned with the messy backroom politics that made passage of the Thirteenth Amendment possible.
The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment digs deep into this period of history. A US general tells President Lincoln that he has aged 10 years in a single year; the President appears extremely gaunt, with deep lines in his forehead, around his eyes, down his cheeks and he tends to stumble as he walks. A museum display in close-up features a calf and foot opened lengthways to reveal bone and muscles. A man cuts the string holding a dead bird from its feet in a tree.
A man in a restaurant slams a large wooden mallet into a cooked lobster and meat and juices splatter over his plate. A man spits in a spittoon and we see the tobacco juice. LANGUAGE 5 - At least 1 F-word, 5 scatological references, 14 mild obscenities, name-calling different derogatory terms for African-Americans, crazy, idiot, hucksters, hicks, hacks, prostitute, King Abraham Africanus I, dictator, bloody radicals, hobby horse, traitor, fanatics, gabble, fatuous nincompoop, unnatural, scoundrel, rat, rough, rude, simple minded, brainless, obstructive, reptile, worthless, barnacle , stereotypical references to women, Republicans, Democrats, radicals, abolitionists, Union and Confederate soldiers, Southern plantation owners, Washington gossips, 18 religious profanities, 9 religious exclamations.
SUBSTANCE USE - Several office scenes show a man drinking sherry and smoking a cigar, several other scenes in the office feature several men smoking cigars and drinking wine, a man is shown sitting in an office beside a glass of wine and does not drink, a man drinks sherry in a kitchen, a woman tells a servant to get her dad drunk so that the older man can sleep, several men drink in a bar and one man throws a glass of alcohol into another man's face because of his political party, many men drink wine during a session in the House of Representatives, two men at a table outside a restaurant sit beside bottles of beer but do not drink them, and men play poker and they all drink alcohol.
A non-smoker coughs loudly when cigar smoke wafts by and his wife reports that her husband has emphysema, several men smoke cigars and we see clouds of smoke in the House of Representatives, and a man uses snuff in close-up. Be aware that while we do our best to avoid spoilers it is impossible to disguise all details and some may reveal crucial plot elements. Our ratings and reviews are based on the theatrically-released versions of films; on video there are often Unrated , Special , Director's Cut or Extended versions, usually accurately labelled but sometimes mislabeled released that contain additional content, which we did not review.
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