The Liberal Agenda – Melania. 5 stars
Melania: A 5-star train-wreck of Liberal Power
Melania film earns $7m in US, strongest documentary debut in over a decade
Melania, however, cost quite more than a typical documentary, at $40m to make and $35m to promote.
The Guardian
Melania is not a flattering documentary, but it is a revealing one. This glossy, hollow portrait of obscene wealth exposes the banality and rot of Trump-era power better than its creators intended.
This is a 5-star train-wreck of a documentary, but before I delight you with just how much of a 5-star train-wreck it is, let me set the terrifying scene in Central Auckland, New Zealand for this ‘documentary’ screening.
It’s a 5.35pm screening, Sunday at Rialto Newmarket, NZ’s upper middle class shopping mall with all the snobbery possible in an egalitarian country.
There’s about 40 people in the cinema and hand on heart 50% of them are there as Melania supporters.
I. Fucking. Kid. You. Not.
Dressed way beyond a cinema outing, these exclusively women viewers were there to cheer Melania on, they weren’t there to dine out on the ghoulishness of it like I was.
These are people whose Namaste mantra’s each day after Downward Dog is, “I’m better than you”, and they are ‘present’ because they live in a fucking mansion!
If they had been on the Titanic, they would heave been helicoptered off first.
That was their general vibe.
I was not there to cheer lead, I wanted to watch the train-wreck because when you have a set amount of time you can only record what is there and the monsters can’t hide.
And hide they did not.
The gasp inducing ignorance on display can’t be hidden. The myopic focus she has on her clothing and the bone colour arrangements for her Starlight Ball can’t be ignored, hidden or filmed around.
Her fastidiousness to the shallow and vacuous nature of party planning and wearing clothes as the nation burns is a disconnect from the real world that you have to see to appreciate.
The bubble world of heavily guarded ostentatious obscene wealth that she lives in alongside the cavalcade of security to drive her from aforementioned heavily guarded ostentatious obscene wealth to even more heavily guarded ostentatious obscene wealth marks her as someone divorced from any sense of reality.
Like a golden robot riding around in a balloon that never lands.
They travel between heavily guarded wealth fortresses through the crumbling intestines of buildings and side streets while flying over the abject poverty of everyone too poor to move out from under their flight path.
It’s like Moulin Rouge meets Apocalypse Now.
The rotting corpse of America as the 1% dance between balls is startling in a way they didn’t intend.
The pitifully shallow interpretation she has of her role and tasks have to be seen to be believed.
I counted 20 costume changes.
The fear in her bodyguards and tailors can’t be scrubbed from the screen.
She is alone and aloof in a way that no one else could ever articulate.
The way she utterly cuts Trump’s other kids out, to push and promote Barron is spooky.
She is so focused on the tiniest detail of crystal wear, plates, napkin designs and clothes that she can’t possibly acknowledge the nightmare Trump has started.
Her cold, inhuman and robotic delivery makes the whole doco eery, like Stephen Hawking doing an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression.
Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Tim Cook all make cameos as a rogues gallery of corporate supervillains, that Bezos spent $75 million on this bribe is astounding.
Her focus on Imperial Bone as the colour palette for her last Ball is almost Hannibal Lecter level sociopathy.
It’s not just a train-wreck, it’s a train hitting a school bus while plowing into a disabled pet store.
It was released as three million Epstein documents were released, here is the documentary filmmaker in those latest files…
…charming.
Melania is a must watch doco, it gives an insight into the banality of what Trump represents in a way Bezos, Ratner nor the First Lady could have anticipated.
It’s like Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘Triumph of the Will’ but with may more Triumph and no Will.
5 stars
Only another entitled airhead would want to watch Melania’s doco – it would be like watching paint dry. What a promenading bunch of misguided misfits. Trump truly beieves he is the most ‘important’ person in the world; I’d say the most ‘wanted’! Losers like Luxon fawn all over him like he’s a pop-star! How have we bred such uncaring, self centred people? However it’s refreshing to see there are many out there still with a working, thinking brain.
$40 million to produce? $35 million to promote?
Well thank heaven all that money did not get spent on something stupid like healthcare.
I recall once seeing an item of her wearing a coat that said “I Don’t Care”.
I wouldn’t want to watch a movie of such a person who probably looks upon the poor as being like stones in her shoes.
I don’t know about a ‘must watch’, but if you ‘must watch’ it, it’s should be readily available on the Pirate Bay in a week or two at most.
No reason to give (Jeffrey Epstein associate) Brett Rattner any money for the ‘pleasure’.
Agree. No matter what the reason the money is spent and adds to film’s success’ . Now, why would anyone want to do that.