Friday, November 25, 2022

"She Said" Is a Terrific Movie. Go See It.

 


She Said is a 2022 film about Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's New York Times investigation of Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse of female underlings. The film stars Carey Mulligan as Twohey and Zoe Kazan as Kantor. It was directed by Maria Schrader. The screenplay was written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It was released on November 18, 2022. It has an 87% professional critic score at RottenTomatoes, and an 87% audience score. In spite of positive reviews, the film opened to weak box office.
 
I vowed to myself that I would not see She Said. I'm a feminist and I've been subject to sexual harassment, but the Me Too phenomenon that followed the Weinstein scandal struck me as flawed. Too many Me Too discussions oversimplified the problem. These simplified discussions depicted men as rapists and women as victims and an incoherent and racist rage against "white men" as some kind of solution. Hollywood actresses participate in the objectification of women, and female participation in female degradation renders the "men are bad" solution ridiculous.