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This is another reason thatThe Final Yeardoesnt play like Obama propaganda.
But people are also motivated by stories.
The students are visibly transported.
He travels to Hiroshima and says, in essence, never again.
But in Powers view, he misses the trees for the forest.
There is nothing inThe Final Yearabout outright Trump-Russian collusion.
This is an experiential documentary, meaning Barker chiefly sticks to the present tense.
(The words never come.)
A surprisingly melancholy gospel cover of The Times They Are A-Changin plays her out.
And at least one viewer wept all the way through the credits.
*This article appears in the January 22, 2018, issue of New York Magazine.
