In 2017, New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the Weinstein story, inadvertently igniting the #MeToo movement. Two years later, they wrote the book "She Said," which offered a behind-the-scenes look at how they reported the story that would change the world forever. In 2022, the film of the same name starring Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan as Kantor and Twohey, respectively, shows the difficulties that come with telling a story of this magnitude. It does so by putting the focus on the women who shared their stories of abuse. (Ashley Judd, the only actress who went on the record for the first Weinstein story, plays herself in the film.)
These women understood the risks that came with speaking out against Weinstein, yet they still did. But that decision wasn't easy. What the movie reiterates is that there is power in numbers: all of these women coming together to bravely tell their stories is what made anything he said seem less credible. That is something to celebrate, but it also begs the question: why must women fight so much harder to be believed? The film is out in theaters on Nov. 18.
