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The Way I See It (2020)

Documentary | 100 minutes
2,62 8 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Dawn Porter

Stars: Pete Souza, Samantha Power and Ben Rhodes

IMDb score: 8,2 (1.990)

Releasedate: 18 September 2020

The Way I See It plot

"Finding his voice through the power of photos."

Photojournalist Pete Souza was the official White House photographer under Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. In that capacity, he attended every meeting and meeting, as well as photographing both presidents in their day-to-day interactions with family and staff. His photos give the American citizen the opportunity to see the man behind the president. In this documentary, Souza talks about his experiences in the White House and, very against the journalistic code, speaks publicly about the major differences between Obama and his successor Donald Trump.

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mrklm

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Fascinating glimpse into the kitchen of Pete Souza, official White House photographer under both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. His photo books "Obama: An Intimate Portrait" and "Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents" became international bestsellers. "Shade" is controversial because Souza makes a visual comparison between the presidency of Obama and his successor Donald Trump. And Trump gets off badly. This documentary is about the history of Souza's position, how and why he ended up in the White House, and especially shows the importance of human qualities such as humility and empathy for a president. The intimate images of the Reagans and the Obamas cast a unique light on their time as president, but Souza himself regularly gets a lump in his throat when he looks back on his presence at Obama's visit to Sandy Hook Elementary, Obama's contacts with the seriously injured hit soldier Cory Remsburg and Obama's response to a letter from six-year-old Alex offering to take into his family a six-year-old Syrian boy injured in an airstrike in Syria. It's a pity that Porter throws the nuance completely overboard in the last 10 minutes, which are mainly reminiscent of a long commercial aimed at Donald Trump.

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blurp194

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Half/Half.

As a documentary, it is somewhat insufficient, because far too much 'and then, and then' - what a good director could not have done with this storyline. The pictures we see every now and then are genius, enviable - who gets the chance to make records like this. But I don't think Souza's narrative really fits in with that - it doesn't strike me as if we're hearing a photographer who fully realizes what his work actually entails, or has ever really been confronted with. To put it in the floaty way, according to the old Native American idea that a photo takes away part of someone's soul, captures it - but the other side of that coin, that part of the soul of the photographer also remains captured in every photo. It's never optional for the photographer, that's what it's all about, and that's exactly what I miss in the story - the soul of Souza herself, strange as that may sound. There may be a hint of it in the distance, but too American and way too casual.

And the other discomfort I feel is when I look up the insta stream of the best man during the documentary. Yes, that's genius. To the point, ad rem, topical. Like there's a seriously good advertising agency behind it. I don't see that in the man himself either - and that's fine in itself. After all, the truth is nowhere being mocked, as in raw contrast does the party that is the recipient of all these stabbings. But be clear about how that comes about, I don't really like this kind of potentially inappropriate hero worship.

If you want to win against your enemy, you have to be better, in every way - but if you lower yourself to the same level, you become the same as what you are against. That seems to be forgotten a bit too much here.

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