Before Greatness: Barry Is About an Obama Who Has No Future

Barry Is About an Obama Who Has No Futureby Charles MudedeIn 1981, 20-year-old Barack Hussein Obama transferred from Occidental College in Los Angeles to Columbia University in New York City. He was lean, handsome, curious about things, and a chain-smoker (a pack a day). The new Netflix biopic Barry, directed with superb economy by Vikram Gandhi, focuses on this brief and mostly uneventful period of his life. He arrives in NYC, settles in Harlem, makes new friends, attends classes, smokes a lot,