{"id":1549,"date":"2016-01-25T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T22:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/25\/sundance-review-southside-with-you-transcends-obamas-first-date-movie\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T22:37:24","slug":"sundance-review-southside-with-you-transcends-obamas-first-date-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/25\/sundance-review-southside-with-you-transcends-obamas-first-date-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance review: 'Southside With You' transcends 'Obamas first-date movie'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PARK CITY, Utah \u2013 To call Southside With You<\/em> the Obamas\u2019 first-date movie is to sell it terribly short \u2014 though the entire film is a linear account of that day, now fixed in presidential mythology, it\u2019s so very much more.<\/p>\n

It starts as a study of courtship, the kind where the young woman isn\u2019t so sure about the young man. But as it unfolds, multiple, interlocking themes emerge, nearly all of which will shape not just this outing, but the course of history.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Sundance review: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ is a masterpiece about moving on<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Make no mistake: Southside With You<\/em> keeps its feet firmly planed in Chicago, and on that very day. There are no flash-forwards, no winky allusions to the presidency that is to come. The connections are much more nuanced than that, rewarding the audience\u2019s awareness of what\u2019s to come, but not hanging this film on it. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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PARK CITY, Utah \u2013 To call Southside With You the Obamas\u2019 first-date movie is to sell it terribly short \u2014 though the entire film is a linear account of that day, now fixed in presidential mythology, it\u2019s so very much … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[965,858,1210,765,1209],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-barack-obama","tag-film","tag-movie-reviews","tag-movies","tag-sundance-film-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}