There’s a love story at Barry’s center - Anya Taylor-Joy plays one of his classmates - but director Vikram Gandhi is more interested in Obama’s search to find himself as he tries to come to terms with not feeling wholly comfortable with either white students or black friends. ) This is a look at fictionalized characterizations of real-life presidents, for better and, often, worse.Īn origin story of sorts that shows the formative years of Barack Obama, Barry follows our 44th president as a college student (played by Devon Terrell) in New York trying to find his footing in the big city. One rule about this list: We didn’t include documentaries. That’s probably going to change in 20 years. But they are all Large Men, men of import and power. Not every president featured in these films is a great man. How reverential can anyone find the job after this? But that’s the one thing these movies about real-life presidents have in common: the importance of the office contrasted with the basic humanity of the officeholder. Their whole life becomes an origin story.Īgain, this feels like it will all change because of our current situation.
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Everything else they do seems more important, more magnified: We look for insight into their soul in the most mundane, and least mundane, of life’s tasks. Every aspect of a human being’s life, whether it’s before, during, or after his time in the White House, is filtered through that lens: This person once held the most powerful office in the world. One aspect of all movies about real-life presidents - an aspect one worries future films will not share - is a reverence for the office of the president. This article originally ran in 2018 and is being republished for Presidents’ Day.
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