![]() He’d spent much of his childhood with his white grandparents in Hawaii, while she’s from a tight, working-class South Side black family, with whom she still lives. The dramatic hook is that Barack (Parker Sawyers) and Michelle (Tika Sumpter) are from very different worlds. The movie is charming even when it’s stilted, and it’s often stilted. And the movie’s mix of romance and politics - both African-American and feminist politics - has a naïve kind of charm. It’s all a little wholesome for my taste. Southside With You plays as if the young writer-director Richard Tanne felt compelled to parse every word his characters say, which means they don’t cut loose the way the characters do in fictional date movies like Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. Other people might wonder at the possible political ramifications of having Obama admit onscreen (as opposed to in elitist print) to spending high school in a “cloud” of weed. There might even be people out there who think the first paragraph of this review isn’t sarcasm - Donald Trump’s definition of sarcasm having turned out to be rather elastic. It’s weird to watch a biopic in which the subjects aren’t just alive but in the White House, and in which everything they say and do is freighted with politics. He really likes her, but, because of their professional relationship, she’s reluctant to go on an official “date.” He asks her out so many times, though, that he wears her down. ![]() In this version, Obama (who has just finished his first year at Harvard Law School) is a summer associate at a Chicago corporate law firm, where he’s advised by a second-year associate, Michelle Robinson. This movie actually peddles the version concocted by Bill Ayers for his second “Obama” book, The Audacity of Hope. ![]() Southside With You is a dramatization of Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, in 1989, during which the Kenyan-born pretender took his future bride to a mosque and the two bonded over plans to make Whitey suffer - either by establishing sharia, legalizing gay marriage, or doing both at the same time, however contradictory that might be.
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