“SHE SAID” - A masterpiece of investigative reporting depicts the triggers of #MeToo

A sincere approach that carefully depicts down-to-earth investigative journalism

"SHE SAID" is a masterpiece that impresses with the sincerity of the two authors, but because of its sincerity, it seemed like a poor material for film. If it had been made into a heroic tale of courageous reporters working to "uncover the name" by adding Hollywood-style dramatization, the spirit at the core of the original would have been lost, and it would have become a cold fiction.

But director Maria Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz are not afraid to be understated and find the perfect balance. The history of film has produced many excellent works on investigative journalism. The most famous and representative of the genre is Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men (1976), Spotlight (2015) won the Academy Award for The Post (2017) set in the same 1970s Washington Post editorial office as All the President's Men .

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"She Said" is clearly part of that lineage, painstakingly following the world of journalism without trying to be eccentric. If there's one thing that sets it apart from previous works, it's that the reporters investigating the case are women, and the people they interview are also women. Women whose voices have been silenced for a long time are now speaking up for themselves. Director Schrader and his team must have thought that with that modern feel, they could create a film that is earnest, thrilling, and captivating to the audience without any unnecessary gimmicks.

The power of the great actress Samantha Morton and the sharpness of the ending