Bombshell is the fictional retelling of the all-too-real reality of workplace harassment and men behaving like they own everything. It is the 2016 US presidential election season and Fox News, the leading conservative television network, is where Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson are the faces of some of the most popular shows. Joining them is new hire Kayla Pospisil , who is eager to make a splash at her new workplace as a younger conservative and “influencer in the Jesus space”.
The depiction of Kelly and Carlson is nearly the same, as if they were cut from the same template. Both found themselves subjected to multiple advances from Ailes in their way to the top, and when they turned him down, they found themselves passed over for opportunity after opportunity. The camera only ever shows them in their private movements as mothers and bossy women who refuse to shut up despite what their lawyers and colleagues tell them to.
Director Jay Roach has said in other interviews that he chose to shoot the scene by alternating between Pospisil and Ailes’s points of view so that the viewer could have insight into the discomfort Pospisil experiences. However, the camera puts the viewer into the role of voyeur, in this case, as Ailes, and does more to frame and contextualise the feelings of the perpetrator rather than that of the victim.
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