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I stopped improvising, improvising. I used a help machine. It had to be much more structured than before
Michelle Obama tells in her Netflix documentary about the period when the right-wing press began attacking during the 2008 presidential campaign. The attacks were valuable, among other things, for her comments, such as when she said she was proud of the United States for first time in his adult life because he felt that people wanted a change. (And they were also attacked with lies about why they greet each other with their husbands by touching their fists or why they are always so “angry”).
This consideration, the lack of spontaneity that obviously did the campaign good, since Barack Obama was able to win twice, really does no good for this movie.
That’s why Becoming doesn’t offer viewers what it promises: a deeper insight into the life and personality of one of America’s most popular women. Especially since during her eight years in the White House, Michelle also earned the First Lady’s weakest label.
The film is framed by the American tour of Michelle Obama’s blockbuster book. The book with the same title as the movie, How I Became It, became the best-selling book in the United States in 2018, with 725,000 copies sold the first day after its release. In total, she has sold over ten million copies, received rave reviews, and, especially among young women, has become a huge cult following, praised by many as inspiring and life-changing reading. The book is a classic autobiography in which Michelle Obama also speaks honestly about her least sunny periods, such as her miscarriage, which she owes her daughters to the jar program, her postpartum depression, or when she realized she had chosen a career. .
During the month of the book tour, he visited dozens of American cities in a month, where he spoke in some huge (and crowded) sports halls to commonly famous hosts (Reese Witherspoon, Stephen Colbert, or Oprah Winfrey) about the book, its eight years at the White House and in a joint resumption after the end of Obama’s presidential term. On the other hand, he also met students in their twenties and twenties everywhere, with whom he participated in a smaller group of conversations between 10 and 15 people. The camera follows these shows and get-togethers, but it also shows people working in the background, team members and Michelle Obama’s family, the location of her childhood, preparations for the tour.
All of this is undoubtedly fun and interesting, but what the book could have had so much impact on is not given in the film.
We simply do not go beyond one point, we do not delve into the Michelle Obama phenomenon. So we can’t really understand what makes it bigger for many people than any previous First Lady. Why a young woman has a spasm of joy when she can finally meet him, why they thank her so much. As with more sensitive issues, such as the election of Trump, Michelle Obama’s relationship with the Trump presidency emerges only cautiously, with little concreteness. (And the fact that Michelle Obama may one day run for the Democratic presidential nomination, as her fans would like, doesn’t even appear at the mention level in the movie. She herself has denied this rumor before.)
However, the film really works in the moments when Obama gives up prudent, thoughtful, sounding, but giving life advice and inspiring messages, and finally talks or talks to someone, recalling an unpleasant memory. For example, a career counselor who told her in high school that she wasn’t good enough to go to Princeton University, even though her brother had already jumped in front of her from a working class (her father was Employee of a city water company and his mother a black household) from a family to one of the most prestigious universities in the United States.
Or when he remembers that the first thing that occurred to him at Princeton when he was still picked up was “they’re not that smart.” When she talks about how shocking it was for her to be served in the White House in almost a tuxedo, almost just black or Latino men, and that she didn’t want her daughters to grow up to see black men in this slave role. Or when he recounts his last morning at the White House, when his children didn’t want to get up after the night before the slumber party the night before, so he was forced to scare them into dressing now because the Trumps were already in the door.
Despite careful and calculated structure and writing, it appears from the film that Michelle Obama is a great storyteller and a captivating performer.
A confident but not self-confident woman who lives in an egalitarian relationship and is well aware of her own popularity and influence.
It also turns out that, although unfortunately this is not as detailed as we would like, neither the trust nor this relationship was given for free. What slaps it was after her children were born to realize that she just can’t keep up, can’t work with her old spirit. That he had to define himself next to Barack Obama over and over again in order to be left alone. The latter has undoubtedly been successful, the Michelle Obama brand is strong and operates independently to this day.
When a woman sits in the White House we feel so sorry for because she lives with someone and because her relationship with her husband seems chilling, it’s just refreshing to listen to Michelle Obama for an hour and a half, even in the way I became too. But the most exciting question about him, what comes next in his life, what begins with his great popularity, still has no answer.
(Cover image: White House Pool / Getty Images)
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