What She Said

I remember watching the film "She Said" back in 2023, a couple of months after its release in October of 2022. It was a great film that not only highlighted the struggles of many women within the film industry but also women in any jobs who have dealt with sexualization or even assault from male authority figures in their industry/job. The movie explored and explained a lot more of what goes into investigative journalism and the dangers that some journalists might face when dealing with telling a story about a powerful person, in this case, Harvey Weinstein, and how difficult it can be to write or publish a story in that context or situation. I enjoyed how much detail they gave to the journalism aspect and how the ethics of the profession played a key role in the story. It was a team of journalists and writers who were behind the article released by the New York Times about all of the allegations and confessions against Harvey Weinstein and his behavior, but the movie followed the two women - Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohe and how trying to investigate the story affected their personal and professional lives. The case against Harvey Weinstein came to a close in early 2020, right before the pandemic, and he was found guilty of criminal sexual assault and rape but he went back on trial in 2022 facing 11 more charges. This movie and the articles were extremely important because they "ignited the #MeToo movement, in which thousands, perhaps millions, of women took to social media to detail their own stories of sexual harassment and assault" allowing so many women to finally be heard about their own experiences and not feel so alone anymore.

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