is one of those films that sneaks inside you, uninvited, and lingers there like a disease that hasn't yet been diagnosed. It’s also a movie that's deeply necessary, particularly for Hollywood, baring not only the sexual abuse that runs rampant in the industry, but also the emotional abuse that plagues its entry level employees.
Indirect complicity feels evident on every level of the food chain in the film: The executive who waits in the black sedan for his boss while he finishes a “meeting” with an aspiring actress; the junior male producer who laughs along at crude jokes, and finally Jane—the lowest on the totem pole, the person we ache for—the immobilized subordinate who has to make the hotel room reservation or lose her job.
At least one person wants to protect Jane: Garner. “People are quick to judge Jane,” she says, “but realistically, with such a traumatic experience, you don’t really know it’s happening. You don’t really see how bad it is because it’s so shocking that you don’t really know what to say or how to react. Jane is just so powerless.”
Her performance was good, very good, in a crushing kind of way: Raw and excruciatingly hard to watch. But it is a must-watch—if not to learn how the system keeps bad people in power, than to witness how the ripple effects are felt by everyone in it's wake.ending, you’ll be disappointed. Much like most real cases of gross injustice, the movie doesn’t wrap with a satisfying arrest scene, or even a comforting moment for Jane that gives us hope for her future.
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