{"id":133568,"date":"2020-02-24T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/24\/hillary-review-did-the-us-presidential-hopeful-take-the-wrong-road\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T14:00:22","slug":"hillary-review-did-the-us-presidential-hopeful-take-the-wrong-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=133568","title":{"rendered":"Hillary review \u2013 did the US presidential hopeful take the wrong road?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This epic documentary ranges across Hillary Clinton\u2019s life, from the Arkansas governor\u2019s mansion, through the White House years to her own shot at the top job \u2013 but the enigma remains There is a melancholy fascination to Nanette Burstein\u2019s sympathetic and respectful documentary interview with the enduringly opaque Hillary Rodham Clinton. It is produced by Hulu TV in four parts, like a good-energy inversion of David Frost\u2019s four-part conversation with Richard Nixon, and presented as a 252-minute special at the Berlin film festival.Burstein structures her narrative like a Hollywood movie, in a series of flashbacks from the unfolding tragicomic drama of the presidential election campaign. It takes us back to Clinton\u2019s childhood, her time at Wellesley College and Yale Law School (where she met Bill), her time as the governor\u2019s wife, as the president\u2019s wife with the attendant issues \u2013 Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the three-strikes controversy \u2013 her time as New York senator in the new millennium and then her fateful tilts at the White House. As the past starts to converge with the present, there is a confluence of bad omens: her tense concession speech when Barack Obama beat her for the 2008 presidential ticket sounds like a rehearsal for the horrible real thing of 2016. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/feb\/24\/hillary-review-documentary-hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary review \u2013 did the US presidential hopeful take the wrong road?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This epic documentary ranges across Hillary Clinton\u2019s life, from the Arkansas governor\u2019s mansion, through the White House years to her own shot at the top job \u2013 but the enigma remains There is a melancholy fascination to Nanette Burstein\u2019s sympathetic and respectful documentary interview with the enduringly opaque Hillary Rodham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}