"The primary question in all matters concerning Melania Trump is " What is she thinking?" The First Lady is an endless font of utterly puzzling behavior. So it's fitting that at the premiere of her film on Thursday night she stood before the audience and declared, basically, "Ceci n'est pas une documentary." "Some have called this a documentary. It is not," she said."
"How could the Amazon-produced, Brett Ratner-directed film project, which was described from day one as a documentary possibly be anything else? Surprisingly, after viewing the film, I find Melania's statement makes sense. Not literally, but in that this collection of random words feels like something ChatGPT might produce if it were asked to describe a behind-the-scenes documentary about the First Lady and the attempt to summarize human emotions and artistic endeavor broke its little AI brain."
Melania Trump presented her film as "not a documentary," describing it as a deliberate act of authorship that invites viewers to witness events and emotions through rich imagery. The Amazon-produced, Brett Ratner-directed project was initially described as a documentary but resists that label. The film opens with Melania entering a motorcade as the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" plays, juxtaposing apocalyptic lyrics with her image. The sequence and needle-drop function more as spectacle than explicit subversion of Trump's return to power. Many viewers characterize the film's promotional language and episodic visuals as oddly mechanical, even resembling AI-generated attempts to summarize human emotion and artistic intent.
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