From Netflix Original Films comes the trailer for Barry, a biopic on a very young Barack Obama. Directed by Vikram Gandhi (Vice, Kumaré), Barry takes a look at the time when a young Obama was a college student at Columbia University in New York City.
In Barry, Obama, far from Honolulu and his white family, struggles with his racial identity in a multicultural yet often divided, New York. He tells a friend,
“You know I’m the only black person in four of my five classes”
“You’re half white, too. You can fit in anywhere”
“I fit in nowhere”
And to an extent, he is correct. He’s a biracial man treated sometimes poorly by white people but doesn’t yet feel he fits in with the black community. Barry sheds light on the experiences which helped cement Obama’s identity and views as he goes forward in life, not knowing the groundbreaking politician and world leader he would become. In the trailer, we even see the seeds of what would become a powerful word in Obama’s political career, “Change”.
The highlight of this trailer is Australian actor Devon Terrell’s performance as Barack Obama. He has the President’s vocal cadence down and his physicality perfected. The portrayal is surreal.
A young Barack Obama, known to his friends as “Barry,” arrives in New York City in the fall of 1981 to begin his junior year at Columbia University. In a crime-ridden and racially charged environment, Barry finds himself pulled between various social spheres and struggles to maintain a series of increasingly strained relationships with his Kansas-born mother, his estranged Kenyan father, and his classmates.Barry is the story of a young man grappling with those same issues that his country, and arguably the world, are still coming to terms with 35 years later. Only on Netflix December 16.
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