In 2019, the film Bombshell was released as a drama narrative fiction. This film is based off the Fox News scandal in 2016. It tells stories of woman being harassed in their place of work by a superior, specifically Roger Ailes. To move up in their career or even keep their job, women in this film are coerced into performing sexual acts or being harassed with words by their superior.
This film tells a story of women empowerment as these women decide to step up one by one and share their story as part of a lawsuit against Roger Ailes, their boss. The biggest theme of this film is women empowering one another to speak out against the injustice and harassment they have faced individually in their workplace. This movie is a great template for understanding the gaslighting and gender roles that are played when working in corporate America. The film tells a story of what woman have to put up with and do to move up in their corporate jobs. It shows the power men hold over women in corporate America jobs. The film depicts the story from many different women’s point of views, to give the theme of women sexualization even more of a dramatic effect.
The film tells a story of being threatened to be silent. If you speak out against the people at the top, not only will you be fired but they threaten to make sure you never get a job again. Silence plays such a large role in the world of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Being threatened and scared into being silent by a man who is superior to a women, is a problem across the nation and even world. This movie has a purpose to encourage women across the world to step up if they are being harassed in their workplace. Bombshell is showing women that they are not alone and they don’t need to stay silent. Male superiors should not have so much power over women in the workplace that they can get away with this type of behavior.