Can't wait for the movie 'Lincoln', directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and coming November 9? Neither can we. But our long national struggle just got a little easier with the release of the movie's first full-length trailer Thursday. 
 
 The trailer was the first to debut in an unusual new setting: a Google+ Hangout with Spielberg. 
 
 The first thing you'll notice is that Spielberg and Day-Lewis have opted for a full measure of historical accuracy on Lincoln's voice. Despite any lingering impression you might have of the man in the stovepipe hat and beard booming out the Gettysburg address, contemporary accounts agree that the 16th President actually had a high and reedy speaking tone. 
 
 Day-Lewis, renowned as a method actor who picks his roles carefully and then inhabits them, has evidently taken note. 
 
 We could do without the overly stirring music, frequent fades-to-black and other cliches of the movie trailer. But everything else about the clip screams early Oscar favorite. 
 
 What's your take on the trailer? Let us know in the comments. ||||| Related Find showtimes and theaters Lincoln MPAA Rating: PG-13 MPAA rating reasons: An intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage, and brief strong language Running Time: 149 minutes Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, James Spader Director: Steven Spielberg Writer: Tony Kushner Playing at: Kendall Square 
 
 Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” does something that, at this very particular moment in time, seems almost impossible to comprehend. It makes politics exciting again. 
 
 Maybe you don’t want to hear this. Whether you’re elated or dejected by this week’s election results, you’re doubtless sick of all things relating to governance. Besides, trailers for “Lincoln” and the general hullabaloo leading up to its appearance in theaters have led most of us to expect a standard Spielbergian portrait of the 16th president as an exalted saint. But “Lincoln” is smarter and tougher than that. The crucial ingredient proves to be not the director and not even star Daniel Day-Lewis — both of them working at the top of their talents — but screenwriter Tony Kushner. The “Angels in America” playwright (he worked with Spielberg on “Munich”) has penned an epic ensemble about the intersection of democratic process and higher moral thinking, and it’s a rip-roaring entertainment, brain food that’s tasty and good for you. Sweet Lord, how refreshing it is to hear dialogue that crackles with wit and personality — with actual ideas. 
 
 Rather than an overarching biography, Spielberg and Kushner zero in on the weeks immediately following the president’s reelection in late 1864, when Lincoln opts to spend his new political capital by pushing through the 13th Amendment and abolishing slavery in the face of opposition from all sides. Based loosely on historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 bestseller, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” the film’s a galloping drama of horse-trading, strategic thinking, and deal making, all yoked to notions of what should be done rather than what could be done. It’s the most enjoyable two and a half hours of historical C-Span ever made, shot on a wide canvas (and on film) with impeccable eye to detail by Spielberg’s longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. 
 
 Aside from the president, not one character in “Lincoln” thinks the Amendment stands a chance of passing in the Senate and the House. Hardly anyone thinks it’s even a good idea. We’re reminded that the Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime measure and that, with the Civil War grinding toward a conclusion, only a change to the Constitution would prevent slavery from resuming in the South. “Lincoln” takes pains to illustrate for a modern viewer the racist thinking that was part and parcel of the average white American’s worldview in January 1865. 
 
 That certainly includes Lincoln himself, who at this point has consciously chosen to listen to the better angels of his nature. By giving enough scenes to African-American characters like White House seamstress Elizabeth Keckley (Gloria Reuben) and Union Corporal Ira Clark (David Oyelowo), we comprehend the stakes as they see it. More critically, by giving over the stage to the radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens — a gloriously obstreperous Tommy Lee Jones — the movie lets us understand how rare and how dangerous it was for a white man to publicly state that blacks and whites were equals on every possible level. 
 
 Jones comes very close to stealing “Lincoln” with a performance of ethical purity and calm, hilarious invective, and if anyone else were playing the president, the actor might have the movie in his pocket. Day-Lewis moves eerily beyond impersonation to embodiment, though, and we watch with fascination as he reinvents Abraham Lincoln as a canny politician hiding behind a folksy, godlike exterior. It’s a daringly low-key portrayal, one that moves to private rhythms rather than public posturing, and it seems directly descended from Henry Fonda’s dreamily confident “Young Mr. Lincoln” in the 1939 film directed by Spielberg’s beloved John Ford. This Lincoln walks like a tortoise and thinks like a hare, forever telling cracker-barrel anecdotes that reveal stinging moral rebukes. (Except for the scene in which he tells a dirty joke involving a picture of George Washington in a British toilet — then, like any showman, he just wants a laugh.)
– One of the year's biggest movies is expected to be Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, with Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. The movie is out November 9, and it looks like a winner to Mashable based on the newly released trailer. "We could do without the overly stirring music, frequent fades-to-black, and other cliches of the movie trailer. But everything else about the clip screams early Oscar favorite," writes Chris Taylor. Though no audio recordings of Lincoln exist, Entertainment Weekly says the voice by Day-Lewis "just feels and sounds ... right."