"Ever wonder what it's like to watch Melania Trump try on a dress she'll wear to her husband's inauguration? Then maybe "Melania" is for you. For the rest of us, it is going to be a snooze. But that's not the point of this project: I don't think there's any way to view it except as a gift from Amazon's Jeff Bezos to the Trumps."
"I mean: It's possible you'll like it if you're a Trump superfan who likes everything Trump does. The movie is full of drone shots and lingering looks in and outside of SUVs and private planes. There are lots of glimpses inside the White House, Trump Tower, and Mar-a-Lago. There's also some very expensive music licensing that brings you a sampling of artists you might hear at the beginning of a Trump rally, including the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, and Tears for Fears."
"The best way I can describe this one is something akin to a wedding video: Maybe the subjects of the video will want to watch it (Melania looks, unsurprisingly, like a woman who used to be a model; her husband seems notably more spry than he does now, a year after it was filmed). It's hard to imagine anyone else will."
Melania presents a portrait of Melania Trump using drone shots and lingering footage of SUVs, private planes, the White House, Trump Tower, and Mar-a-Lago. High-cost licensed music appears, including the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, and Tears for Fears, with an Aretha Franklin rendition of "Amazing Grace" standing out as the most moving moment. The pacing is inert and largely eventless, prompting insertion of grainy Super 8-style footage midway to add texture. The film has the intimacy and tone of a wedding video, likely to interest committed Trump supporters or the subjects themselves more than general audiences. Some viewers interpret the project as a gift from Jeff Bezos to the Trumps.
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