""Is anyone dead? ""
Mitch and Alex said to Chip "Someone better be dead" and "who die?" , Someone really died, Hannah was dead, and looking back at the beginning of these two sentences at this time, it seemed particularly painful. The screenwriter planted this foreshadowing at the beginning of the play, suggesting the direction of the plot. At that time, we I only thought it was a joke, but I didn't expect to predict the reality.
This is like people’s attitude towards metoo. At the beginning of the accident, although everyone was shocked, but there was no real pain. In fact, everyone did not really realize how serious it was. Until someone paid the price of their lives and the joke became a reality, the pain did not really come from The surface has penetrated into the hearts of the people.
""I just worked as a few assistants""
After learning that he was fired because of metoo, Mitch was furious, and told his pr team a large piece of classic sexual assault justification. One of them was that he said, "I just worked as a few assistants." At this time, the camera showed When I arrived at the only female staff member of the pr team, there was obviously an expression of embarrassment and discomfort on her face. This sentence of Mitch put her on a very embarrassing list of [Suspects who have an affair with Mitch]. When her colleague heard these words, would she guess that she might have had sex with Mitch? This kind of speculation and guidance by a colleague wearing colored glasses behind her back may make her restless.
A workplace sexual assault is like a poisonous mouse shit, which will cause serious distress to women in the entire workplace, but men are not aware of the harm. Due to gender discrimination, women in the workplace are no matter how many numbers or positions they are. Neither dominates, and this kind of trouble is usually not taken seriously and resolved.
"Middle-aged successful woman with life crisis vs. Middle-aged successful man with thriving life"
Alex and Mitch have partnered as anchors for 15 years. The two seem to have the same position, and they both achieved fame in the middle age. However, before Mitch's accident, the two people's business and family situations were completely different, and the contrast was very strong.
Alex is deeply in a career crisis, and the TV network has been refusing to renew her contract because the ratings survey found that the audience's attention to her is declining-she was initially popular because of her next-door girl temperament, many years later, she is now Being a rich female tycoon that ordinary people can't climb, no longer makes people feel cordial, and the degree of love keeps declining.
At the same time, Mitch received the best contract ever in the TV network's history. What an ironic gender Matthew effect. People are not used to or like seeing successful middle-aged women, but they are accustomed to admiring successful middle-aged men. Therefore, women who are already difficult will only become more and more difficult as they grow older, while men become more popular as they get older.
Inside the news department, Mitch once revealed that he has a close personal relationship with Fred, the head of the news department, eating together, playing golf together, and sharing the most "private" life-I guess it's probably the woman who slept recently. And because Alex is a female, he can’t enter such a male high-level social circle, so he won’t be treated like Fred to Mitch, even if he often wipes his ass, he still has to give him the most generous contract. Men in the company The rapist alliance is so realistic and naked.
And also the host of the show post, Mitch often praises and comforts Alex on the surface, but behind the scenes, he casually said, "Is it necessary to send Alex in this report?" He tried to keep her out. I broke up with the women in the team and had an extramarital affair, and asked to transfer his ex-girlfriend away, let Alex pick up the mess he caused, and do such an unkind thing without even saying hello in person, only asking Chip to send a message to Alex, arrogant and rude Extremely.
As a middle-aged person, Alex is not only in crisis in his career, but also in his family. Her husband can’t bear to be her "good helper" to help her deal with all kinds of mess and educate her daughter. He thinks she has been neglecting herself (actually because of her I devote myself to work, and I really can’t tell how much energy I spend in my family.) I want to divorce her.
Hearing the news of their divorce, her daughter blindly accused her-father is so good, why didn't you work hard enough to keep him? We are always being your foil and background board, you have never paid attention to us.
She is just a young school girl who has not been deeply involved in the world. She cannot understand that her mother needs to work far more than men in the same position to gain a foothold in the workplace, but she still gets less than them. She accuses her mother of ignoring her father and herself, but not Seeing that this is just the daily life of most of the so-called men who work hard in the workplace in the family.
Even so, Alex's husband also has his own business, a university professor, and his own best-selling published books, and he is not solely assisting Alex.
On the other hand, Mitch's wife was taking care of her two children at home while enduring her husband's blatant derailment. At the scene of his 50th birthday party, she sat behind him like a cloud of completely non-existent air.
In terms of neglecting and hurting his family, Alex is definitely inferior to Mitch. However, because Mitch is a male, he can have a good wife and a harmonious and beautiful family in the eyes of outsiders, and at the same time make unscrupulous girlfriends and sleeping girls outside. Subordinates, but Alex can only cover both business and family. He is struggling in the workplace and has no support when he returns home, only accusations and incomprehension.
""Come on, today's first meaty joke""
The eighth episode flashbacks the day before Mitch’s 50th birthday. Even if it’s just one day, you can see a lot of details about how Mitch usually treats women.
In the morning, Mitch entered the live news room, praised her beautiful dress to a female anchor colleague, teased "Is my age a bit older for you", turned around and asked Alex why she didn't wear a skirt and asked Chip Arranged for Alex to wear a skirt. After being tactfully rejected by Alex, he whispered to Alex about her and the female anchor who was boasting before, and Alex laughed and said, "Here, the first one today. Joke", the staff in the audience had clear smiles on their faces. Obviously, Mitch did it often.
After the live broadcast, the TV station threw a table of colorful fireworks paper to celebrate his birthday. The cleaning staff took a vacuum cleaner to clean up. He took the vacuum cleaner to Alex’s hair and body and said “I’ll help you clean up”, and finally even put The vacuuming head stretched under the table to face her lower body, and at the same time made an expression of exaggerated connotation-the sexual suggestion was obvious.
In the evening, at the birthday party prepared for him in the stage, another male director who was accused in metoo was preparing for this song and dance. All the dancers are women with good-looking bodies, wearing deep V bunny costumes, and dancing sexy. The dance shows strong thighs, twists buttocks, and makes "50" gestures. The movements have strong Oral sexual hints.
In this place, there is a drama in which the dance moves are slowed down and the background music is lowered and blurred. The lively celebration is suddenly pulled away, showing that the naked objectification of the female body by the group's default is very profound. .
This is Mitch's daily life before the accident, and he willfully make pornographic jokes on every female colleague-even female anchors of his equivalent status, and have an absolutely strong position in the company. This is the atmosphere of this live news room. No one discriminates against women obviously, but the atmosphere of discrimination and objectification is everywhere and suffocating.
"No one likes a bitch"
At Mitch’s birthday party, there was a line in the specially choreographed song and dance that was "Wait a minute, no one likes a bitch". When this line was sung, the camera gave Clair a close-up, who was just smiling and admiring it. As she danced, her smile disappeared when she heard no one likes a bitch. This obviously hateful sentence made her feel uncomfortable, but she was just a newcomer who had just joined the company. At the birthday party of important people in the company, she was very happy. In the atmosphere, she has no way or means to express her discomfort and protest, and can only be a silent spectator.
When the rape culture is dominated by powerful men and becomes ubiquitous like the air, the women in it can only endure it in silence.
"Female passersby's attitude towards sexual assault vs. male passerby's attitude towards sexual assault"
After Mitch's accident, two passersby described his attitude in two places. Once on the street, a woman yelled "Rapist!" to him, and he yelled back furiously.
Another time when Mitch returned to his New York apartment, the male security guard downstairs said to him: "It's great that you are back. I want to tell you that many of us think you have been treated unfairly."
This comparison is also very interesting. Women and men have completely different attitudes towards sexual assault/harassers like Mitch. Men’s natural gender alliance allows them to tolerate their same sex infinitely, and they will support him no matter what he does to harm women.
"Hannah's tremor"
When Mitch went to Hannah and hoped that she would stand up and accuse Fred, before leaving, to express gratitude, he stretched out his hand and shook Hannah's arm. Hannah shook subconsciously. I felt very distressed.
She was tortured all the time after being raped by Mitch. Mitch was her nightmare. Suddenly he found a place to live and suddenly had physical contact. It was really scary. This subconscious trembling revealed that no matter how strong and indifferent she usually behaves, she has never overcome the infinite fear that this incident brought to her deep in her heart.
"Female Justice and Empathy & "What's the Use of Hugs!" ""
In the last two episodes, Chip, Mitch, Cory, and Bradley plan to expose Fred’s cover-up of Mitch’s crimes on the morning news show. The three men have their own goals. Chip hopes to use this operation to dump Fred and relieve himself. The guilt in this cover-up is to avoid affecting his career prospects. Mitch is not willing to pay the price alone in the entire system. He wants to bring other accomplices into the water. Cory wants to pull Fred down and himself. No one cares about this. The key witness in the situation of Hannah, only Bradley, made it clear from the beginning that "if Hannah disagrees, this interview will not happen."
Later, when interviewing Hannah, she saw Hannah's collapse and tried to comfort her but was rejected. She returned to her residence and listened to the recording repeatedly. Her heart was full of guilt. When Chip approached and asked her to interview as planned, she shouted to him: Drag her into the water, she is broken now, she is in pain, but none of you care, no one cares how broken this poor girl is!"
The worst thing is that at this time Chip tried to hug her in order to comfort her. She pushed her away and said "What's the use of hugging?"-She just heard a story about workplace sexual assault causing women to collapse. The last thing you need is the physical contact of a male colleague. Chip's action is simply stepping on the thunder spot.
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