Review: Netflix's 'Becoming' won't change your mind about Michelle Obama
The former first lady is admired by liberals and conservatives. Putting her on the ticket would make defeating Trump easy.That isn’t to say it’s bereft of self-examination, or an incendiary statement or two. It takes you at least a step or two behind the scenes, which is as far as you’re ever going to get in any documentary nowadays; you can be a fly on the wall and still find some doors closed to you. Still, it feels honest, without oversharing.
She’s funny, she’s physical. She is regal, in a particularly democratic, down-home way; signing copies of her book, she spends a moment speaking with each person who comes to the table, easily but with intention. She speaks of her support team as family, from chief of staff Melissa Winter, to stylist Michele Koop , to the longtime head of her secret service detail, Allen Taylor.
And so on to 2008, the Iowa caucuses, Millennium Park, the National Mall and “eight years of trying to do everything perfectly,” while being anatomized and magnified, celebrated and vilified and willfully misinterpreted, as when right-wing commentators characterized an ordinary fist bump between the Obamas — the Healthier Handshake Alternative, we know now — as a “terrorist fist jab.
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