“I was hoping you wouldn’t notice.” She points out that she is his supervisor and she has noticed his lateness at work as well. “You’re late,” she says when he arrives at her home. Then there is a glimpse of his “preparation” for the date - smoking and reading a book. She is just accompanying the law student she has been assigned to supervise for the summer to a community meeting. Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter, who also co-produced) is put together so meticulously that her father (Phillip Edward Van Lear) teases her: “Can’t you at least run a comb through your hair?” She insists to her parents, as she will to Barack, that this is not a date. We begin with the amusing contrast of their preparations for the date. But it also is especially meaningful as we come to the end of the Obama administration, and only the most partisan opponents can fail to appreciate their graciousness, elegance, and family values - and the true partnership and romantic spark that is evident in their relationship.
We know what they will do and who they will become. The historical context is primarily significant because we start off with information the characters do not have. It would still be utterly witty, charming, and captivating even if it was not based on the real-life beginning of the romance of Barack and Michelle Obama.
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“Southside With You” is a rare movie that shows us what it is really like to fall in love, over the course of an all-day first date. If they throw in a chirpy pop song over a montage of the highly attractive pair walking on the beach and laughing together at a street fair, we are happy to believe that they are in love and we can move on to the (short-term) complication before the happy ending. People who make movies know that we are eager to see couples falling in love.
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