How New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Cantor brought down producer Harvey Weinstein? This is what Maria Schrader says in She Said. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play the main roles of the courageous and determined reporters who launched the MeToo movement in 2017.
It took perseverance for these women to lift the veil on the turpitude (rape, sexual assault and other abuses of power) that the Hollywood producer inflicted on the women who worked with him. More or less known actresses or assistants were the victims of this brutal man devoid of any scruple to attack the most fragile causing indelible traumas in his path.
Meticulous work
Supported by the management of their newspaper as well as by their companions, these everyday heroines will allow speech to be freed, a meticulous work from which journalism emerges. Like works like The President’s Men by Alan J. Pakula or most recent spotlight by Tom McCarthy, She Said proves to be as exciting as it is didactic in showing how mentalities can be changed with investigative work that is sometimes demoralizing, often rewarding.
“The consequences of this article and the movement it started have been enormous. These changes go far beyond the framework of Hollywood ”, explains the director known for having signed episodes of the series Unorthodox. The viewer follows the two young women in their investigations and their struggle to convince the victims to speak and then to persuade them to testify by renouncing their anonymity. Little by little, we discover with them the extent of the damage caused by the producer as well as his attempts to cover up the affair.
The Pultizer Prize in 2018
The work of Megan Twohey and Jodi Cantor won them the Pulitzer Prize in 2018. This well-directed film emphasizes the strength of these exceptional women who, not content to juggle careers and family lives, have definitively changed the world’s view of the relationship of domination in the professional environment. She Said (“She said” in French) takes on the appearance of a thriller to pay them a deserved tribute.