Melania

More like "Midlania"

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hibisisis

After watching the documentary, I can say for certain that I learned nothing that I already knew about Melania Trump The title is Melania, but the documentary doesn't really focus on her. It's more-so about her duties as First Lady, specifically about planning the presidential inauguration. We learn nothing about her younger years, almost nothing about her first term as First Lady, or how she felt leaving the position after her first term. I'd say the deepest thing we learn about her is how the loss of her mother affected her, but even then, her true feelings still seem guarded. Even in a documentary entirely narrated by her, she still appears distant from the viewer. There is no attempt of connecting through the screen, which just leaves you feeling nothing by the end. She really likes fashion too, I guess; There was a lot of time dedicated to explaining her outfit choices and how she's meticulous in her language used when providing criticism for the designers The song choices were simply bizarre and seem to hold no deeper meaning except for "the First Lady likes these songs, so we're going to play them". The song lyrics are also aging like milk, with themes that only work to worsen Trump's involvement in various scandals and ultimately implicating him in a worse light, Allegedly During a certain point, the focus shifts away from her to focus more on Trump, which further worsens the distant feeling the documentary already had. We are not seeing Trump from Melania's point of view, instead we are placed in the point of view of the audience, the general public. This could have been used as a way to finally have some introspective on how Melania is feeling at the moment of Trump being sworn into the presidency, but instead that is all lost. The footage shown is identical to what was presented on news stations to the point where turning on Fox News might have been considered a documentary footage leak. Sure, there are some behind-the-scenes shots edited in between, but there is no underlying message or thoughts from Melania or anyone. It stops being a documentary centered around Melania and turns into yet another boast from Trump, loud and the center of attention without actually having anything meaningful to say The documentary could have been called "Planning the Inauguration" and very little would change. There is just nothing of meaning here, nothing exclusive that could have just been learned elsewhere. In refusing to be vulnerable, you isolate your audience further. In bragging about opulence, you lose relatability with an audience who will never be able to reach it in their lives. This documentary is devoid of feelings and is simply a bad attempt of making a propaganda piece for the average consumer, failing because the people who made it have no idea what the average consumer wants because they have never had to stoop down to that level. I'm sure MAGA will enjoy this because they already like Melania, not because it's actually a well-thought-through documentary