Filmmaking actually has so many rules. But without going into detail a simple one is: Show, don't tell. This movie is all tell and no show which makes it very very hard to watch, hard to get into the emotion and to be more invested.
The director said she left out the crimes intentionally and while I can totally see why you would not show every gruesome detail there is a middle way. "Bombshell" had such a scene where you could have heard a feather dropped in the movie theater and I still remember this scene to this day. Without even one scene we "only" have women telling the reporters what happened. So it is talking heads again and again which is really bad in the craft of film. If it weren't for the great actresses in this movie through and through it would die a slow death after 20 minutes.
This is such an important story but the argument can be made that the way this movie is done, it could have been a documentary. There is nothing added here by doing it as a movie. We could have also seen an actor playing harvey which woulld have given us the opportunity to project our anger on hin. I can see reasons for leaving him out but again it makes it harder to get invested.
At the end the movie finally gets to you a little but is always sad to see when a movie can not be what it should have been and what it needed to be.
The director said she left out the crimes intentionally and while I can totally see why you would not show every gruesome detail there is a middle way. "Bombshell" had such a scene where you could have heard a feather dropped in the movie theater and I still remember this scene to this day. Without even one scene we "only" have women telling the reporters what happened. So it is talking heads again and again which is really bad in the craft of film. If it weren't for the great actresses in this movie through and through it would die a slow death after 20 minutes.
This is such an important story but the argument can be made that the way this movie is done, it could have been a documentary. There is nothing added here by doing it as a movie. We could have also seen an actor playing harvey which woulld have given us the opportunity to project our anger on hin. I can see reasons for leaving him out but again it makes it harder to get invested.
At the end the movie finally gets to you a little but is always sad to see when a movie can not be what it should have been and what it needed to be.