Barry (2016)
Directed by Vikram Gandhi
A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
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Gandhi's astonishingly dimensional examination of racial conflict recalls Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, with one key difference.
And Gandhi also reveals the divide separating Barry’s experiences from those of his white mother (Ashley Judd); whereas Southside With You utilized footage of Do The Right Thing, which the Obamas saw on their first date, Barry plucks an anecdote about Black Orpheus from the president’s best-selling memoir, Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance.
In "Southside" we see him reading Toni Morrison and watching Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing"; in "Barry" it's "Invisible Man" and "Black Orpheus."