How women are forced to handle, and suffer, the bruised egos of men fuels Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour.' The film is a chilling, based-on-a-true-story drama abut a 1970s serial killer who appeared on an episode of “The Dating Game.
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The tension of those encounters, and how women are forced to handle, and suffer, the bruised egos of men, fuelsa sometimes awkwardly plotted but consistently insightful thriller about the anxiety of the female experience and the grim game of constantly weighing the threat of potential danger in men. The film
“Woman of the Hour” isn’t your standard true crime dramatization. The perspective of Alcala, who was convicted in 1980 of killing seven women and girls and died on death row in 2021, isn’t the one that matters here. It’s the women he targeted. When Cheryl is thrust into the showbiz swirl of “The Dating Game,” all of the sexist remarks and misogynistic underpinnings of the show appear only more sinister given Alcala’s presence. The host, a fictionalized Jim Lange named Ed Burke, is played with expert, flippant sleaze byKendrick keeps the camera on Cheryl’s face in the makeup chair while Ed, just before showtime, tells her not to act too smart. “I just need you to laugh and smile over and over,” he says.
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