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On Tuesday morning, I did my civic duty as a cultural critic and saw a 10 a.m.
screening of the documentary Everyone Has an Opinion on Melania.
Regardless of how you feel about Melania Trump, the fact that a sitting first lady was paid $40 million by Amazon for a self-produced documentary about her own life
That is something worth examination.
The film follows First Lady Melania Trump's experience of the 20 days leading up to her husband's second presidential inauguration.
As it all unfolded, so did my perspective.
And I kept asking myself,
How is Melania any different from the dozens of self-produced celebrity documentaries that have gotten popular over the past 15 years?
Like, was Melania's film really a total switch up from, you know, Taylor Swift's Miss Americana, Katy Perry's Part of Me, or Beyonce's Life is But a Dream?
To be honest, I'm not so sure.