If you weep at the thought of a White House without Barack Obama, take comfort in Netflix's new original biopic about the future POTUS as a 20-year-old college student. 

 

如果你因为奥巴马将要离开白宫而伤心流泪的话，那就到网飞公司新制作的传记电影里寻找安慰吧。《巴里》讲述了奥巴马总统还是20岁的大学生时的故事。
 

 

Barry follows the young ambitious Barack - called Barry by his pals¹ - as he navigates² the gritty, crime-ridden New York City of the early 1980s. 

 

Barry, played by Australian actor Devon Terrell, arrives in the city as a junior at Columbia University.

 

The trailer highlights Obama's sense of displacement³ as a child of a white mother from rural Kansas and a black father from Kenya.

 

It also shows him indulging in a few things we don't normally associate with the buttoned-up POTUS: dancing sensuously⁴ at a nightclub with a young lady who is not Michelle Obama, hanging out on graffiti-scarred street corners and inside smoky tenement⁵ hallways, and lounging shirtless in bed with a cigarette dangling⁶ from his mouth.

 

Throughout the trailer, the theme of Obama's 'otherness' from his classmates is clear - he's of mixed race, he's not into the club scene, and he probably studies just a bit harder than most of them.

 

It might be a shock for some to see Barack sans Michelle - at this stage of life, his girlfriend is Charlotte, a wealthy young lady from Connecticut, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, a composite of Obama's college girlfriends, including Genevieve Cook.

 

The movie is directed by Vikram Gandhi and was written by Adam Mansbach. 

 

Barry, which received rave⁷ reviews at the Toronto Film Festival, premieres December 16.

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