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“No matter where [people] come from,” Melania announces during one of her grating voiceovers, “we are bound by the same humanity.” Though she speaks with a thick Slavic drawl, she refers only obliquely to her “country of birth” (Slovenia is referenced, directly, once). A parade of immigrants, including French-born fashion designer Hervé Pierre, appear to reinforce this vaguely cosmopolitan angle. “Opportunities, equality,” says Tham Kannalikham, a designer who moved to the US from Laos aged just two. “It’s really the American dream.” These are the good immigrants serving the Trump administration; a far cry from the ones in cages, the ones tear-gassed on the streets of Minneapolis, the ones festering in a jail cell in El Salvador.

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[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 59 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness ~~in her ghastly film – review~~

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Guys, I'm being totally genuine when I say that this description truly is spot on.

That is Melania. That's her. This is how she is objectively described.

[-] redlemace@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago

It's either a bribe or a money laundring sceme. It's the only thing that makes sense.

[-] mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

It’s a bribe, go look at how much the movie paid to her. It was like half of the overall movie budget.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

About 70% of the budget.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Budget $40 mil and she got paid $29mil. Definitely a real movie

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago

Who is your favourite musician, Ratner (against whom there have been accusations of wrongdoing) asks Melania. She responds with “Michael Jackson” (against whom there have been accusations of wrongdoing), detailing how she met the late singer with her husband (against whom there have been accusations of wrongdoing). Perhaps this is Ratner’s vision for a modern American: a country of forgiveness.

Lmao this writing is pure gold

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

You can tell they were having fun with this review

The “film” is part propaganda, sure, and part sop to Big Tech companies who require constant regulatory approval for financial manoeuvrings. Even then, it is bad. It will exist as a striking artefact – like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will – of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly. Organising plans for his return to the White House at 2am, after the Starlight Ball, Trump announces he will immediately “begin straightening out the nation”. “We’re all very grateful,” his event producer whimpers sycophantically. It is a visceral moment where audiences, around the world, will begin to taste the boot that the American establishment so blithely licks.

[-] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago

At least The Birth of a Nation and Riefenstahl's films had an impact on filmmaking. No one's going to cite Melania as inspiring anything other than suicidal thoughts while being forced to watch it

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 14 points 8 months ago

“No matter where [people] come from,” Melania announces during one of her grating voiceovers, “we are bound by the same humanity.”

Does she know what her husband is doing to immigrants?

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

She does. Remember when she went to visit children in cages wearing this?

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Fuuuuuuck this bitch

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

When your entire life is based on gold digging, you aren't going to have a lot else going on upstairs.

Her claim to fame is being the first first lady whose pussy you can see on the internet.

As the Sopranos like to say...

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I think they should hand out a They Live kit with this movie....

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I do not understand how it did 7 million in the opening weekend.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Money. Laundering.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Isn't that not very much for a debut these days? What did endgame do?

Brb.

Edit: I'm back. It did 1.2 billion in 5 days

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Your comparing a movie with a budget of $356 million to a documentary.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

I am not a mathematician but...doesn't that mean:

  • Avengers made ~$3.2 per $1 spent making it.
  • Melania made ~$0.17 per $1 spent making it.

Sure, but it was a documentary with a budget of 75m, so it should at least get a fraction, right?

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

I mean. There's still a lot of people out there who'd love to show Daddy Trump their ass.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

But those people don't have the attention span to see a WHOLE movie in a dark room without a phone

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'm assuming these are numbers like the Regnery Press has for their books.

[-] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago

People writing reviews for newspapers/movie websites, and people who enjoy really bad movies

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