%% #📓 #🎥 #🟠 %% **Title:** Lincoln **Director:** Steven Spielberg **Citation:** Spielberg, S. (Director). (2012). *Lincoln* [Film]. DreamWorks Pictures; 20th Century Fox; Reliance Entertainment. --- # Abstract ~ 3 Sentence Summary # Structure # Notes & Important Ideas ### 0:02:30 - Lincoln listens to Private Green and Corporal Clark before they leave for assault on Wilmington - Corporal Clark comments on the inequities of the black soldiers and wonders when they'll be allowed to be commissioned officers and have the vote - Green, uncomfortable with how direct Clark is being with the president, keeps interrupting in an attempt to change the subject - Lincoln listens silently, despite the uncomfortable topic - Lincoln doesn't respond with his own thoughts or advice, he asks questions, not about the topic but about the person. - Lincoln is seated while they stand so they're at roughly the same level - His body language is relaxed and informal, hand clasped in his lap, smiling and holding eye contact ### 0:12:50 - Secretary of State Seward tries to convince Lincoln that they don't have the votes to pass the 13th Amendment - Seward accuses Lincoln of pretending to listen - Lincoln appears distracted while Seward is speaking. Signing documents, not facing him. - Lincoln is quick to respond with counterpoints ### 0:16:20 - Seward asks Mrs. Jolly if she supports the 13th Amendment - Example of Lincoln using his power as president to manipulate people into agreeing with him. - Jolly believes Lincoln's assertion that passage of the amendment will bring an end to the war, that's why she's in support - Seward realizes that it is Lincoln's fear that the people won't support the amendment that's causing him to rush it through before the war ends. ### 0:40:36 - Blair informs Lincoln that the confederates are sending a delegation to negotiate a peace deal. - Blair and Lincoln are both using coercion to advance their own agendas with one another ### 0:47:32 - Seward is upset that Lincoln has invited the confederate delegates. - Respectful listening - Presence not only in the moment, but being open to the future - ["] If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me. (0:48:38) ### 0:49:21 - Lincoln doesn't really listen to his son Robert or his wife - Ignores Robert - Dismisses his wife ### 0:55:22 - Lincoln tries to convince Congressman Stevens to temper his - Lincoln seems to be trying to facilitate consensus ### 1:11:30 - Lincoln spends time in reflection, listening to his inner voice - Searching for consolation, or at least less desolation - Mode 2 discernment ### 1:14:45 - Lincoln dictates telegraph to General Grant - Listening speaking - Listening to listening - Comment about Euclid gets Lincoln to consider the axiom that "things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another" - Reflecting on this changes his mind from allowing the secesh delegates to come to Washington, and instead delay them so there is time to vote on the amendment. ### 1:44:30 - Lincoln refuses to listen to anymore objections to holding the vote - Mode 1 discernment - ["] See what is before you. See the here and now, that's the hardes thing, the only thing that accounts. Abolishing slavery by constitutional provision settles the fate for all coming time not only of the millions now in bondage but of unborn millions to come (1:45:23). # Connections to Other Materials # Personal Reflection & Application --- # Other References ## Tags