Sophie Gilbert
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Podcast Appearances
It's much more in the vein of a commercial.
When you think documentary, you think a sort of journalistic endeavor or, you know, a real portrait of someone or something.
But this is entirely, entirely Melania Trump approved.
It really felt to me like a two-hour perfume commercial.
It definitely feels like Amazon was paying way, way, way over the odds for a documentary.
Not because they believed that this would be a work of cinematic genius, the like of which none of us have ever seen, but because they wanted to keep Trump happy and on the side of Amazon in case that happened to be useful.
I think I can start by saying not much happens.
It's about an hour 45, I want to say.
And usually with documentaries, there's some kind of, you know, dramatic crux.
Like there's a structure to it.
There's a, you know, a narrative arc.
I mean, the first shot, it's sort of astonishing because you go and you really don't know what to expect.
Nothing had been written about Milani by this point.
And there's this Rolling Stones...
And then you see drone footage of Mar-a-Lago.