REVIEW: She Said' pays tribute to Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohy's investigative reporting that took down Harvey Weinstein — and started a movement — with a good old-fashioned Hollywood journo procedural.
knows that you know how this story ends, or given that there’s really no “end” in sight, what happens next: court cases, felony charges, the birth of the #MeToo movement, the backlash, and long legacies of abuse finally being dragged into the light. Not just in show business, either — almostindustry has had to reckon with its share of monsters in the wake of their Weinstein story and its aftermath.
Tellingly, though, German director Maria Schrader doesn’t start with the journalists grinding it out, or a tiny thread being pulled, or even the initial phone calls that lead Kantor and Twohy to press their Wonder Twins rings together and form an unstoppable force for good.opens on a young woman in the Irish countryside, shuffling on to a movie shoot in progress. She’s been promised a job working on the production, and is all smiles as she waves to her friends on set.
It definitely does that, and for every scene in which Kazan and Mulligan get doors slammed in their faces, have inquiries brushed off or find lines of questioning met with dial tones, there are moments in which their dogged efforts are met with people speaking out. Sometimes it’s reluctantly, after a lot of coaxing and patience and sympathy. Other times, the stories spill forth with a sense of vitriol finally being able to flow freely.
aspect of the narrative. To suggest that Kantor and Twohy did everything that Woodward and Bernstein did, but backwards and in heels, is too reductive.
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