The documentary told the story of two presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and the defining moments that shape and embody their rise from obscurity to fame in the 2012 presidential election. The program described Barack Obama’s struggle for an identity and Mitt Romney’s fight to continue his father’s political legacy. It also depicted the shared experiences and how it shaped their political future. It described the differences and the uniqueness of the two people contesting for presidency.
The narratives portrayed both men as very different from each other. Mitt Romney grew up in Detroit and was from a wealthy home. His dad George Romney made his money from the automobile industry and Romney had the best of life. His father was a politician and was at one time, the Governor of Michigan. The narrative showed Mitt as a daddy’s boy, constantly following his father’s shadows and eventually deciding to tow the political line. As one of the narrators said, “The word from his family is that he was not necessarily interested in politics as ideology. But there was always something about his father and his father’s power and his father’s profession that kept him around and kept him close in a way that it didn’t do for other…show more content… He was willing to do whatever gave him an edge in the race. This backfired because it became evident that he was unpredictable. He was willing to fit into whatever “shelf space” was available and this made him change his principles continuously. As a New York Times columnist said, “He went to where the market was, and he became the product he was selling. And that&— on the one hand, it’s sort of effective. On the other hand it’s sort of disquieting because you think, “Well, A, who is he? What would he be as President? Does he believe anything?” And these are the open questions that plague everybody who watches
