This movie was another highly anticipated one for me ever since I saw its trailers and featurettes sometime back in October, this year!
This movie starrs Brad Pitt, Zoe Kazan (Netflix’s “Clickbait”), Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Women”), Patricia Clarkson (“Maze Runner”), Andre Braugher (Netflix’s “Bojack Horseman”), Jennifer Ehle (Apple Tv Plus’ “Suspicion”), Angela Yeoh (“The Batman”), Wesley Holloway (Meet Cute”), just to name a few.
This movie was directed by Maria Schrader
This movie was released on November 18th 2022. It was rated R for language and descriptions of sexual assault.
This movie debuted at “New York Film Festival”, “BFI London Film Festival”, “Bergen International Film Festival”, “Brisbane Film Festival”, “Miami Film Festival”, “NewPort Beach Film Festival”, “Savannah international Film Festival”, just to mention a few.
This movie is a Drama and History.
Onto the premise: “New York Times” reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation – a story that helped ignite a movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
This is a very important movie that will probably suffer at the box office as evidenced by poor attendance early in it’s initial theatrical release.
While doing my research for this review, I found out that this movie is based on the 2019 book of the same name by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey two persistent and brave journalists who took on the ugly spectre of the once most powerful man in Hollywood Harvey Weinstein.
Carey Mulligan was cast as Megan Twohey who along with Zoe Kazan who’s equally impressive as Jodi Kantor ,they both have a place in journalistic history .
I think these two impressive investigative journalists will be seen to be as important in the history of women’s rights.
This movie is a much much bigger story than the pursuit and eventual conviction of Harvey Weinstein who is currently serving 23 years in prison and interestingly at the time of this movie’s release is facing more charges of sexual assault in L. A. In one of the many powerful scenes in the movie when Megan Twohey says to her colleague Jodi Kantor words to the effect that this is much more than nailing Weinstein .
It’s not just him we should be after. They have an entire machine What we’re dealing with here is a system that condones sexual abuse to women by men in powerful positions.
If it could happen to Hollywood actresses, who else is it happening to?
Beautifully directed by Maria Schrader with a screenplay by Rebecca Lenkiewicz that’s intense if perhaps a little slow in gaining momentum but when it does it soars .
The most impactful story was the story of this woman named Laura. Laura’s story which begins the movie when she is a young woman on a film set in Ireland in 1995 . It concerns the sexual abuse perpetrated by Weinstein
I think because of the stories it’s telling , I think this movie has an authenticity about it including the fact that the movie was shot in the real New York Times building and is the first movie ever to use the real offices.
I really hope my review animates more people to see She Said in a cinema preferably as it is obvious from the early Trump reference regarding his sexual misconduct allegations with audio evidence to back it up that these powerful men still have a powerful protection machine behind them .
Weinstein’s great protector amazingly was a woman Lisa Bloom an attorney who tried to discredit the journalists and the women who came forward .
There was a scene where Trump was on a phone call in the early scenes of She Said sets the plot for a disturbing and very educational movie experience. That scene really reminded me of the trend back in 2016 of white women idolizing him and helping him become president.
Overall I really enjoyed this movie even tho it was difficult to watch at times…. But that’s the reason I think this movie is one of the most important movies of the year along with “Call Jane”!
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