Lincoln- 2012

It is not the moment of history being written- when the US House of Representatives passed the 13^th amendment to its constitution, abolishing slavery- and forthcoming jubilations in the street that capsize your heartbeat in the film, but the radical republican representative, Thaddeus Stevens’ walking out of the house with the original document from the Speaker, fresh with its winning verdict, straight to his widowed, colored housekeeper Lydia Hamilton Smith that is the most touching moment in the film. "This is for you" he says, upon entering his home, when all other supporting citizens run out jubilant and in chorus into the streets to rejoice. She is the first colored woman to ever hold the document in her hands and read out from it to him, her master of the house and lover. In my opinion, Stevens' silent, yet radical reaction to the emancipation of blacks and their slavery is enough to show what this freedom means to him- it is certainly much more than it meant to Lincoln himself...