Hannah Rosen

Like, there is an airbrushed version of Melania's life story that is rich and interesting.

I have no idea if it's true.

But it was interesting to me that they chose no backstory.

Like, there was no pictures of her in Slovenia, no pictures of her...

As a young child, as a model, the immigrant makes good storyline was not present at all.

And I thought would be kind of interesting, even if not fact checkable.

So the movie ends, do you remember how it ends?

By emphasizing her remaking the role of First Lady.

Yes, her peace letter to Putin.

Yes.

This part is interesting because it's entirely in text.

You know, there's nothing to look at.

It's just text on the screen and it's a lot of text.

You know, it's like reading a sort of AI summary of my accomplishments.

But the accomplishments are very much in line with past First Ladies.

So often when we talk about first ladies, they are a marker for gender and feminism in the U.S.

at that moment, like what we take away from it.

Thinking in those terms, since you're somebody who does think in those terms, what do you take away from this movie?

Is it, you know, the act of ultimate control by a first lady over her own image?

Is it retrograde?