Thomas' former justice said, "There's no difference between a black snake and a white snake, they both bite," making it clear that the film isn't racist.
This is a political film with a clear theme. It tells the story of the Bush administration in the 1990s, when a black justice was nominated, and this Supreme Court justice nominee was accused of sexual harassment by a black woman.
The slightly subtler thing about the incident is that the female protagonist accused the other party of sexual harassment as verbal harassment, so there was no physical evidence, and the two sides also launched a debate on their own. It was a senator's female assistant who excavated this incident. (Here, the female assistant is Aunt May's daughter, so let's call her Xiaomei.) After Xiaomei found out, she handed it over to another Biden who is accountable for such accusations. The senator's assistant, the nosy Biden, was forced to hold a hearing under pressure.
The hearing is the highlight of the whole film. The law professor's heroine, Anita, faced this situation with clear logic and rational discourse. Even after Biden invited his family into the courtroom, she still tried her best to restrain herself and state those filthy details. The senators at the top seemed unable to knock her down, but it wasn't just Anita who was articulate. The accused Thomas was better at confronting politicians. He was sharp and sharp, and he turned the issue of sexual harassment into racial discrimination, and turned the perpetrator into a victim. Even the old fritters in the White House were stunned and felt uneasy all of a sudden, so What's the point of such a hearing? Anita sees this too. Another victim who can turn the situation around is not allowed to go to court. Videotape records that can be directly convicted cannot legally testify. What justice can she do under a committee composed of half of the senators who support Thomas? ? The senator attacked her for her cowardice and demanded to repeat the perverted scene to humiliate her. She couldn't change the result of what Thomas called the Supreme Court, but she did tell the truth, even if it cost a lot, but when she went back to college, Seeing the respectful smiles of the students and the boxes of letters from the office, she understood the meaning of what she did. It was painful to be injured, but she was not alone.
When I saw Anita's self-report at the hearing, I thought of the female soldier who was sexually assaulted in "House of Cards". Why is a sexual harassment accusation so difficult to make a conclusion, because this is a political situation, politicians don't care who is right and who is wrong, what justice and conscience, they only care about whether it will harm their own interests, Thomas is a member of some senator interest groups, Even a member of the president's interest group, in order to appoint his own president, even went so far as to frame Anita with "love paranoia". Even if he is the president, he is just a politician who is in the political arena and a bastard with excellent acting skills.
Many details in the film make the plot richer and more diverse. When Anita spoke to the media for the first time, a white male employee in the White House Press Office looked at the TV and said, "These girls always think that asking the media for help, speaking in front of the camera can be helpful. Helped, but every time they acted very lowly." At this time, another black female assistant gave him a blank look, and soon Anita's calm and sharp answer slapped the white man in the face, and the female assistant countered, "She looked It's not cheap at all." When
Anita made a statement at the hearing, she just said "Mr. Chairman," and was interrupted by Biden's meaningless "Don't let irrelevant people in". This repressive The interruption made the atmosphere discriminatory from the beginning. After Anita finished speaking, Biden deliberately asked her family to come in, and then unexpectedly asked her to repeat how Thomas harassed her, saying those unbearable words in front of her parents. One is to exert psychological pressure, and the other is to delay time and let Thomas arrive at the prime time to make a statement.
As the hearing begins, the female secretary in the office revises the rolling ballots as everyone's presentation ends.
Seeing that Anita was alone and helpless, Xiaomei went to her boss, Senator Kennedy, after being reminded by her colleagues, and persuaded him to speak for Anita.
After the accusation began, congresswomen gathered in groups to ask Biden to ask him to postpone the vote on Thomas' appointment. Biden used the procedure as an excuse to lobby the congressmen by themselves, and the aunts started the vote-sweeping mode.
Thomas' supporters dug up Anita's black spot and found that someone said she had clipped hair in her exam papers and planned to use it to attack her. But at this time even Biden began to feel unreasonable.
Before preparing to go to the hearing, Thomas said angrily to his wife, "Half of those who judge me wantonly are people who live in the dark side of their morality, money transactions, sexual harassment, and no one has accused them of disrupting Isn't their life? Yes, they don't have any shit." It can be seen that this paragraph has proved that he really harassed Anita, and those who have done it will conspiracy theory that others are like him, he does not feel wronged but feels Unlucky to be sued.
When I saw Anita quit and Thomas was successfully appointed, I really felt desperate. The national system, the political situation was turbid, and humanity was wiped out. However, after this hearing, everything was subtly changed, the rise of women's status, and the transformation of public thinking. Signing of the Civil Rights Act. After something happened, it is not necessary to trace back why the compromise was made in the first place, but to learn from the mistakes after making the mistakes, and take this as a warning. As Anita said at the end of the credits, "I think I made the right decision, and what I did was appropriate and right in the circumstances."
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