Elvis Presley was a charismatic character who captured the magic of performance, love, soul and style embodied in the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans. He was incredibly generous feeling empathy for those struggling, as he too knew poverty in his early life. You can never forget where you come from.
He had to live up to this ideal as others projected a status onto him which would be hard to reconcile. He is reported to have fought his own demons as he was a deeply spiritual man in search of God. Fame is full of illusions and false idols where the entertainer can become lost in the fame as he is on a pedestal.
The trailer below captures the adulation and disdain of him as people search for the magic again. Alec Baldwin recognises what was great in the US and the bad things that have been done. Perhaps today people in the US are looking for role models to return to the innocence, purity and greatness to feel pride in being American.
It is not possible to Make America Great Again through money, domination and a super power status. The real glory comes from bringing back the joy, the romance, the love, the truth and the dream of what people can become when they seek their greatness within. Perhaps Elvis at his peak was a role model for that and an example of a man seeking the God within.
The great liberty is to follow your dreams and not be restricted from being who you are. This is the current search of a country that feels it lost its soul. Each has to find the truth of who they are.