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Melania Trump The life of Melanija Knavs, born Melanija Knavs, is undoubtedly fascinating. She grew up in what was then Yugoslavia in the 1970s, in a state-run housing estate in what is now Slovenia. A teenage modeling contract took her around Europe and then to the United States in the 1990s, where she eventually met the humble, mild-mannered real estate mogul. Donald Trump. It’s a journey across Europe and America, the inspiring story of a little girl with a perfect chin; the kind of story that catches Hollywood’s eye. Of course, this is all the information I pulled from Melania Trump’s Wikipedia page because it is Conspicuously absent from New Amazon Documentary, Melaniaincluding Just received a mysterious theatrical release.
instead, Melania Focus on the fact that there are still 20 days until Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025. “Everyone wants to know,” Melania growled in voiceover, “so here it is.” Perhaps she was deliberately unclear about what exactly people wanted to know. The 104-minute documentary covers everything from the design of the venue and the width of her hatband, to her excitement about her son Barron’s imaginary “beautiful family” and her sadness over her mother’s death in 2024. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t miss my mother,” she laments in the film’s iconic voiceover, as the camera captures President Carter’s casket. This is American history told through the unique prism of a woman who was part regime figurehead, part delusional creative force, and part symbol of America’s immigrant community.
“America’s golden age begins now!” Trump bleated during his inaugural address, while Melania sat behind him, her face twitching uncomfortably between a pout and a smile. Interwoven into the documentary’s account of events leading up to the Trump family’s return to the White House are hints of the film’s strange origins. Melania’s chief of staff declined entertainment reporter Matt Belloni’s request for more information Her mysterious Amazon deal. At the inauguration eve banquet (where guests are served golden eggs and caviar), because, as one fawning designer told the first lady, “white and gold are you!“) Audiences will repeatedly spy on Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and other oligarchs like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook. For the rights to tell this “story,” Amazon paid about $40 million, including $28 million directly to Mrs. Trump. A pricey seat at an expensive table.
But witness history in the first person yes A valuable commodity. The main plot of this movie has been Leave it to Brett Ratner,director rush hour and tower robbery. His career stalled somewhat after sexual assault and harassment allegations were made in 2017 (which he denies) (he also recently made a cameo in the release of parts of the Epstein dossier). But just as Trump was given a second chance at the presidency, Ratner was given a second chance. Ratner (who has been accused of inappropriate behavior) asked Melania who is your favorite musician. She responded with “Michael Jackson” (who had been accused of inappropriate behavior), detailing how she met the late singer and her husband (who had been accused of inappropriate behavior). Perhaps this is Ratner’s vision for modern Americans: a nation that forgives.
“No matter where [people] “Where we come from,” Melania declares in a piercing voiceover, “we are all bound by the same humanity.” Although she speaks with a thick Slavic drawl, she only refers indirectly to her “country of birth” (Slovenia is mentioned directly once). A large number of immigrants, including French-born fashion designer Hervé Pierre, seemed to reinforce this vaguely cosmopolitan perspective. “Opportunity, equality,” said designer Tham Kannalikham, who immigrated to the United States from Laos when he was two years old. “This is truly the American dream.” These are the fine immigrants who serve the Trump administration; very different from those in cages, those tear-gassed in the streets of Minneapolis, those festering in El Salvador’s cells.
Call up Melania Boredom is taking its toll on the brilliant e-cigarette smoke lingering around Britain’s teenagers. She calls herself “mother, wife, daughter, friend”, but in the picture she is just dressed up and looking sad. Figures like Brigitte Macron and Queen Rania of Jordan seem to have bolstered Melania’s geopolitical credentials, but she returns time and time again to clichéd maxims. “Cherish your family and loved ones,” she implored the audience, who until then had ignored their families and despised their loved ones. Trump himself becomes instantly more charismatic on screen. His scenes allowed Melania to shed the mask of pure nothingness. It opens in theaters at a time when America’s streets are still filled with anger and sadness – a country on the verge of irrevocable division – and the Trump family’s tawdry, gilded lifestyle makes them look like Marie Antoinette holed up in her cake-filled castle, or Hermann Goering looking up at his plundered Monet.
Of course, this “movie” is part propaganda and part an attempt to provide comfort to big tech companies that require constant regulatory approval for their financial activities. Even so, the situation is dire. It will stand as a striking artifact – as the birth of a nation or triumph of will —A time when Americans willingly surrendered to political and economic oligopolies. After the Starry Ball, Trump was making plans to return to the White House at 2 a.m. and announced that he would immediately “begin to put the country in order.” “We’re all grateful,” his event producer whimpered obsequiously. It’s a visceral moment, and audiences around the world will get to taste the boots that America’s establishment so happily licks.
Then again, maybe Melania Just part of postmodern post-entertainment. After all, this is clearly not a documentary. Melania plays a stage version of herself in most scenes, and shots of the first lady were carefully choreographed by Ratner in his production. X-Men: The Last Stand. It’s somewhere between reality TV and pure fiction. As Donald and Melania waltzed in on the eve of victory, a singer shouted, “Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.” Yet whose truth it is, and where it’s going, seems beyond what the power of this captured documentary can reveal.
“Melania” is now showing in theaters