The Bombshell problem: where are the Hollywood films about liberal abusers? – Telegraph.co.uk

Watching Hollywood grapple with #MeToo storylines is a bit like watching a serpent dance with its own tail. Take Bombshell, a biographical drama that prods at the personal anguish and professional dilemmas of the female news anchors who accused Fox News CEO, the late Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment.

The films basic aim seems to be two-fold. First, deliver a lucidly ambivalent moral message to a millennial audience that is both unoriginal and rings with reflective intelligence. (In this case, sex is a means to power; power is a means to sex.) Second, pull off this Broadway-worthy trick of the light with a distractingly high-voltage lineup of A-list glamour. The (politically incorrect) flashes of leg to the camera courtesy of sexually objectified news anchors Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson (Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman) ironically facilitate this.

In its endeavour, Bombshell directed by Meet the Fockers's Jay Roach is almost flawless. It is undeniably gripping, and, at certain points, squirmingly raw. Even the most ardent of anti-feminists could not but be chilled by the scene where Ailes makes the ambitious aspiring news anchor Kayla Pospisil(Margot Robbie) lift up her skirt in his office; he whispers thank you with pitiful, genuine gratitude, as she smilingly fixes her dress back with a straight back and a crumpled soul.

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The Bombshell problem: where are the Hollywood films about liberal abusers? - Telegraph.co.uk