{"id":50849,"date":"2016-12-22T02:24:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T02:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50849"},"modified":"2016-12-27T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T01:10:08","slug":"review-in-new-biopic-barry-the-real-obama-remains-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50849","title":{"rendered":"Review: In New Biopic \u2018Barry,\u2019 The Real Obama Remains Hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/12\/23\/review-netflix-biopic-barry-obama-532694.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Review: In New Biopic \u2018Barry,\u2019 The Real Obama Remains Hidden<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tom_Shone\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tom Shone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/12\/23\/review-netflix-biopic-barry-obama-532694.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.newsweek.com\/sites\/www.newsweek.com\/files\/styles\/full\/public\/2016\/12\/16\/1223barry01.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> decides on his future\u2014a return to his roots as a community organizer? A de facto leader for the Trump resistance? More writing?\u2014pop culture has stepped in to give him the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Rushmore\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Rushmore<\/a> treatment. First we had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4258698\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Southside With You<\/em><\/a>, a sweet, inoffensive Sundance hit about his and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Obama\u2019s<\/a> first date. Now we have <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barry_(2016_film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Barry<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1871577\" target=\"_blank\">Vikram Gandhi\u2019s<\/a> film for Netflix about Obama\u2019s year as a transfer student at Columbia University, a period in which the future president read a lot of books, smoked a ton of cigarettes and eventually decided to become a community organizer. This is <em>Obama: The Awakening<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the lead is Australian actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6863919\/\" target=\"_blank\">Devon Terrell<\/a>, who is more strapping than his subject but gets just the right mixture of Vulcan self-possession and self-doubt, giving him a slight stammer as ideas struggle for expression through multiple thought-menus. Casting a non-American actor was a smart move. The film records not just Obama\u2019s first encounter with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>\u2014the Big Apple of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Reagan\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Reagan\u2019s<\/a> first term, with its beatboxes, graffiti and break-dancers\u2014but with a kind of urban black experience he hadn\u2019t experienced in Hawaii. Passing between worlds, he belongs wholly to neither&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/12\/23\/review-netflix-biopic-barry-obama-532694.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review: In New Biopic \u2018Barry,\u2019 The Real Obama Remains Hidden Newsweek 2016-12-16 Tom Shone While President Barack Obama decides on his future\u2014a return to his roots as a community organizer? A de facto leader for the Trump resistance? More writing?\u2014pop culture has stepped in to give him the Mount Rushmore treatment. First we had Southside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1245,5,8,20],"tags":[25834,2459,25833,25813],"class_list":["post-50849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-devon-terrel","tag-newsweek","tag-tom-shone","tag-vikram-gandhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50943,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50849\/revisions\/50943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}