By featuring all this African-American and African art, the film is both associating itself with those works of genius and, more importantly, associating the Obamas’ relationship with these masterpieces. They end their date with a trip to the movies to see Spike Lee’s latest (at the time), Do the Right Thing. They debate the best Stevie Wonder albums. Michelle dances with a group of African drummers in the park.
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They visit a gallery showing African paintings and sculpture and talk about TV shows with black casts. In addition to the sense of civic responsibility, the future Obamas’ first date revolves around African-American art. They are honest with each other and others about the challenges facing the southside of Chicago and, by extension, the nation.
You want their relationship to succeed, because it comes to stand for the possibility of our nation succeeding. The future Obamas walk and talk and spur each other to being the best version of themselves. Southside With You works like a new episode of The West Wing. We see the Barak and Michelle Obama that brought hope to so many. Due to Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyer’s impression-lite performances and writer/director Richard Tanne’s earnest script, these civic-minded conversations are endearing. They discuss civic responsibility and the purpose of personal ambition. Being who they are, they talk about their dreams of bringing positive change to the inner city and confess the way they have strayed from that dream by working for a big law firm. Southside With You is a delightful, romantic, breezy film. Southside With You is a gently fictionalized recounting of Michelle and Barack Obama’s first date back in 1989 when they were working together for the summer at a Chicago law firm.
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