{"id":13955,"date":"2020-12-13T21:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13955"},"modified":"2020-12-11T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T22:20:06","slug":"the-assistant-2019-kitty-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13955","title":{"rendered":"The Assistant (2019, Kitty Green)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of a hostile work environment.  Full of small insults and ironies: she gets a papercut opening a dinner invitation from the White House.  The two guys sharing her office space only pitch in to help when she has to write apology emails to the boss (&#8220;I won&#8217;t let you down again&#8221;).  Interesting approach to never show the monster boss, and to follow someone who&#8217;s an indirect victim, not one of the casting-couch hotties or the girl from Idaho (the actress actually from Norway) who shows up to work with no experience and is being put up in a swanky hotel where the boss keeps visiting.  For a while I thought the boss&#8217;s activities would remain a background buzz and never be directly addressed, but no, her conversation with a real wormy HR guy (the 2005 Mr. Darcy) is the movie&#8217;s centerpiece.  The movie isn&#8217;t Akermanian exactly, but it&#8217;s more Akermanian than most films.  Star Julia Garner is from <em>Ozark<\/em> and <em>Sin City 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/assistant2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A.S. Hamrah in <a href=\"https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/the-other-guy-being-socialism-hamrah\">The Baffler<\/a>: &#8220;<em>The Assistant<\/em> is the only film in which I&#8217;ve seen the shame-filled, eating-in-a-Manhattan-bodega aspect of life in New York City portrayed so acutely, or at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/assistant1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of a hostile work environment. Full of small insults and ironies: she gets a papercut opening a dinner invitation from the White House. The two guys sharing her office space only pitch in to help when she has to write apology emails to the boss (&#8220;I won&#8217;t let you down again&#8221;). Interesting approach to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,91,2537,2772,2773],"class_list":["post-13955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-filmmaking","tag-kitty-green","tag-office-work","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13979,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955\/revisions\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}