Overlooked Inventory 2: “She Said”
Comparisons with “Spotlight” are apt, but “She Said” is set in a lower key and no less devastating in its conclusion. Expanding on an article about sexual harassment in the workplace, we follow two New York Times reporters as they follow leads investigating the extensive and systematic assaults of Harvey Weinstein. Maria Shrader ably focuses on the work of tracking leads and the attempts to encourage women to step forward with their stories. Read that sentence again, particularly the “encourage women to step forward with their stories” because this is the crux of the issues. Weinstein sexually assaulted dozens of women in his time and all were browbeaten or traumatized into silence. By dozens, let me be clear: 82 women came forward with allegations against Weinstein. Sit with that for a bit: 82. We could well assume there were more that we will never know about. To be sure, while the Weinstein debacle is the center of the film and a large part of the reason for the #MeToo mov...