American Experience - Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
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Actor: David Herbert Donald, David McCullough, David Morse, Holly Hunter, Jean Harvey BakerBrand: PBS
Producer: James E. Dunford
Producer: Lesley Norman
Producer: Rose M. Compagine
Producer: Sharon Grimberg
Producer: Susan Mottau
Writer: David Grubin
Writer: Geoffrey C. Ward
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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DVD Review: MARY TODD LINCOLN IS REVIVED by mothers who live troubles...
Summary: 5 Stars
MARY TODD LINCOLN is revived by mothers who live troubles...
Mrs. Lincoln came from a wealthy family and maybe "caviar dreams" but her life takes on a storyline like the wretched and powerless yet she sits in the First Lady Seat Of American Power. She lost one son in his childhood, then another and another; she had one left but she was exhausted because in the meantime the American Civil War occurs and Mary had relatives on both side though she felt totally loyal to Abe Lincoln and the northern side of America. (There was death and hell all around her.) She said that she wished her southern relatives' peril because if they were able to they would kill her husband and bring down the government he headed. IN JUST THE AMERICAN WAY that it should be, two women came together to talk about their losses and to help each other cope with their healing by helping others who had escaped from American slavery: one the daughter of a wealthy southerner who bought and sold people for slavery and a woman, a highly skilled dressmaker, who had once made dresses for the southerners' First Lady,and who herself was once held in bondage and forced to be a slave. She became Mary's friend and confidante. Life was going on for Mary and she was coping one step at a time and going forward when suddenly during an evening out at a theater her husband was shot in the head and his blood splattered over her. Mary's mind made its decision: It is time to check out, kaput, go mad, shut down from shock after shock after shock!!!!
Abe had warned Mary that if she was not able to absorbed life's bad tidings and recover and go on and not shut down she would end up in an assylum. That's where she landed; yet, another tradgedy but Mary dispatched her powerful friends (under-cover) and they came to rescue her; she lived in France for a while then returned to America.
The Lincoln's were quiet people who wanted to do their jobs and live their lives with love and happiness. Mary did not mind being left by ABE while he was away on America's business. She stood by her husband as an American First Lady.
(*There are stories that her husband had "intimate male friends" but these stories are. not mentioned in this documentary.)
I have great sympathy and empathy for this First Lady's Life. I feel Mary suffered a lot and though she did not stand up with (ideal) courage so we could praise her and honor her for that sort of strength; I feel strongly that Mary Todd Lincoln is the patron for American mothers who live troubles (no matter what their skin color is and no matter their body size and income and all that) but mothers who seem to live all the really hard and troubling knocks from life. Mary's life also teaches that it is best to learn how to "forgive" and "let go" and go on and gain strength from your personal ability to NOT linger in mourning or wallow in pity, (something like that).
But that's a really hard thing to do if you lose three children, some siblings and your husband is shot sitting next to you and his blood splatters all over you...so have no shame in your game if you can't get up right away...but definitely intend-to before somebody locks you away and you can't get out.
--MO
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