Le documentaire Devenir (Becoming) réalisé par Nadia Hallgren, adapté de l’autobiographie de l’ancienne Première Dame des États-Unis, vient de sortir le 6 mai dernier sur Netflix. Il retrace « mon histoire, de mon enfance dans les quartiers sud de Chicago à ma vie aujourd’hui, et il célèbre aussi les histoires puissantes des gens que j’ai rencontrés en chemin » explique t-elle sur Twitter. « Les liens que j’ai tissés avec des gens de toute l’Amérique et du monde entier me rappellent que l’empathie peut vraiment être une bouée de sauvetage. Et son pouvoir est pleinement mis en évidence dans le film de Nadia » a-t-elle ajouté en évoquant la tournée promotionnelle internationale de son autobiographie.
I’m thrilled to give you a sneak peek of BECOMING before it premieres on Netflix on May 6. This movie tells my story, from my childhood on the South Side of Chicago to my life today—and it celebrates the powerful stories of the people I met along the way. #IAmBecoming pic.twitter.com/jXqGTMRIZc
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) May 4, 2020
Devenir est paru chez Fayard en 2018, ainsi que Devenir, le journal, invitation à méditer et à découvrir ou redécouvrir notre histoire grâce à une série de questions accompagnées de citations tirées de ses Mémoires.
« The election happened, » remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. « And then there was radio silence. » Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it’s not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do. Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system―those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.