This past week the newest timely documentary, Stormy, was released on Peacock. The documentary chronicles the life of former pornographic actress Stormy Daniels ever since she had to blow the whistle on President Donald Trump for paying her off.
As presented in the document, many headlines that emerged during the scandal that first-famed Daniels as Trump’s president’s mistress for the first couple of years in the office, focus on the life of the Man who occupied the White House. What is more interesting is witnessing more of her life in 2018 and 2019, when October 2017, Anthony Weiner, and the F.B.I., her publisher, explained to her what was happening to her.
Her complete name could be perhaps among the top 10 politicians in news headlines for the past decade, Stormy Daniels. A porn film performer who has Donald’s sexual encounter back in ‘06. During his campaign in 2015, she was paid to stay quiet about Trump’s recordings, only when the videos were released, she started claiming about the upcoming president.
Daniels has been filmed by cameras who pursued her regarding things that Trump did to her through the mass media, including Cohen, who paid her to reveal evidence worth USD 130,000 on behalf of the former president. Our senses are restored as things once were at the center of political events in 2018. More importantly, what seems new to us is what these people have been up to in the meantime.
The film tells the story of Stormy on her tour and many would call it her time to shine. She incorporates her former job in entertainment as a dancer. Wearing red, white, and blue, and claiming to make millions for her family, she performs at strip clubs across the nation, whom she has tried to shield from the controversy that follows her around.
Despite registering as a Republican, Stormy Daniels took up the banner of feminism in all its liberal glory, and why not, she was enjoying the perks of a rockstar, who went up against the most powerful man in the country.
The American Dream and the American Nightmare are most associated together, right? Because that is indeed what occurs. The next sequence of events the film recounts is also within the social media realm, with the view that she gets death threats on Twitter. A marriage that was constructed so strongly, now shows nuances of collapse with her husband keeping the home alone with a child.
Her attorney, whom she holds in high regard, resorts to blackmail, and Daniels finds herself taken into custody while crossing the Canadian border over an alleged assault charge against her filed by the FBI. The witness accounts do suggest that she has never engaged in any fist fights. All this circumstance is taking place when the chaos surrounding Trump as he is about to enter into his last one and a half years of presidency in the Oval Office.
Much of the drama surrounding many of these events has already been reported so it is surprising that only five years later the former President finds himself embroiled in legal controversies and yet, it is easy to see how his escapades remain newsworthy. However, there are no major developments here and there is no major transformation either. It does raise curiosity to understand what happened to Daniels when all the news surrounding her broke, and yes, there is much pity that can be espoused for her. One does worry about her. Many times, men have paid a price with their lives for behaving the way she did, that too in America.
If Stormy does anything of interest, it’s one thing that we have yet to see in other publications. Through most of the first half, ride with Stormy as the high achiever shoving it up everyone. During interviews, Daniels embodies an upbeat personality complemented by her enjoyment of fame and its perks, which the smart ones recognize as ultimately a good message to the right people.
Nonetheless, in the documentary’s final scenes, and perhaps as she receives death threats toward herself and her family via Twitter, alongside legal grievances forwarded for the Trump team, Daniels begins to appear beat down and quite erratic and not even well mentally.
Daniels continues to argue and advocate against everything, saying “Who would be in her situation?” She explained that her purpose transformed from her counteracting the power structure to just “having one more ex-presidential penis to talk about”. The documentary reminds us that even a noble cause still can collapse upon your shoulders, and that’s what tragedy means.
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