Every four years, a few months before the presidential election, a batch of strategically timed movies materialize in hopes of engaging voters and influencing the outcome. Some are merely opportuni…
Saving its political agenda for the end, the documentary — which is told through a mix of voiceover, video footage and iconic stills from Souza’s copious photo archives — opens with the image maker’s memories of Obama’s last hours in office. He explains how the transition of power and witnessing the inauguration felt from where he stood, just a few feet away from incoming president Donald Trump.
“Throwing shade,” Souza calls it, and the strategy has been incredibly effective, serving to underscore the yuge difference in management style between these two bosses . Souza trolls Trump so Obama doesn’t have to, and “The Way I See It” will get to that dimension of his personality in due time, but most of the documentary chooses to be less overtly partisan, celebrating the career of a photographer who played eyewitness to history, twice.
Porter weaves aspects of Souza’s photojournalism career throughout the documentary, showing how he bore witness to major world events on multiple occasions before landing an assignment to cover Obama’s first year as senator. Souza says he’d never heard of Obama when he was first asked to photograph the politician at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 , but when the charismatic orator was elected president four years later, Souza was invited back to the White House to document history.
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