Barak Obama

Reuters

The Final Year

This film, on preview at Cinema Village, focuses on Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor, and Samantha Power, the UN Ambassador, young idealists, recruited at the earliest stages of Obama's national career, who assert his audacious hope. Susan Rice, the National Security Advisor, looks on as though she knows a thing or two she doesn't especially want to discuss, John Kerry buzzes around, and Obama himself lets his aged yet open face receive the audience's projection of its own sense of tragedy. As Trump wins the election, Rhodes tries and fails to describe his feelings but he achieves a constructive outlook in positioning Putin, and by implication Trump, as looking out only for themselves, thereby leaving the bigger global picture open for future change. As Power wearily says as she packs up her office, they now know they are in for the long haul.

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