There's never been a movie quite like Melania. A product of a shameless bribe ($40 million, allegedly) from billionaire Jeff Bezos to Donald Trump's wife, it is less a documentary than a series of scenes that illuminate everything the First Lady is - and does. From the opening shot, where the camera focuses on Melania Trump's feet as she exits Mar A Lago and enters a black SUV, we never get closer to understanding who this woman really is. For all we know, she's a fembot, an AI creation and robotic entity who only nods and smiles and spews the most mundane nonsense.
Her famous mantra, "Be Best", is equivalent to a soulless individual saying "breathe to live," and still believing they've uttered something profound. The disgraced director, Brett Ratner, does nothing complex with his subject matter (it's understandable that he was just a hired tool, with little to no creative control), and the result is a propaganda piece whose objective was to gloss and glorify an empty human being. Melania insisists that she's "against bullying (her husband's favorite pastime), believes in children's welfare (MAGA has done nothing to supply underprivileged children with free school lunches), favors education (as her husband's administration guts the Department of Education), and favors personal liberty (as MAGA advocates to illegalize abortion). Every single of her principles is a lie, and shamelessly so.
Melania Trump is undeniably a joke of a first lady, just as Melania is a disgrace to the medium of film. Let's hope nothing this shallow and empty ever graces the big screens again.
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