A Monster exposed

Untouchable

by Kathia Woods

Untouchable

written by Kathia Woods

Havey Weinstein was The Hollywood mogul. He was Mr. Hollywood. A throwback to an older studio system.

He knew how to pick out starlets, make money and get his film awards.

In 2019 Rowan Farrow stopped all this by revealing his dirty little secret. Weinstein was an alleged Predator more specifically a sexual assaulter.

Untouchable focuses on some of the victims, his background and former employees. They give insight to this horrific man.

The first thing one notices is that there are more women in this film than men. By this, I don't just mean accusers. Former employees that confronted Weinstein or quit working at Miramax once they got wind of his behavior.

Do we learn anything new in this documentary? No

What we do learn is how folks are willing to excuse anything for money, access, and success.

The most eye-opening revelation of this documentary is that his first noted assault goes back to the seventies. So allegedly he's terrorized women for four decades.

This documentary does reveal the intricate network he created to keep his secret. The means that he undertook are mindboggling. The filmmakers were able to get a member of the security forces to produce contracts and dossiers Weinstein procured on his enemies. One example of such a document was on the actress Rosanna Arquette. She refused Weinstein's advances and hence her acting career stalled. Ms. Arquette still doesn't have an agent due to Weinstein's smear campaign.

While the above revelation helped connect the dots What was missing from this movie was accountability.

The filmmaker Ursula Macfarlane interviewed victims, employees and the brave reporters that wrote the expose. This film needed executives, actors, etc . who were aware of Weinstein's aggression.

Why didn't Ben Affleck appear on camera to explain his association with Weinstein? An association that continued after his then-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow informed him of her incident.

This documentary didn't give us anything new. We needed the collaborators that enabled this monster.

The employees that heard the whispers but didn't want to give up their access to private jets while these women had their lives altered.

The other issue with this documentary is that some of the women came across as naive.

Why would a young woman go up to a married man's room? No, just once but twice as was depicted? Many unfortunately will interpret that as consent.

We needed a timeline and the names/faces of those that looked the other way.

Harvey is the monster but all those that benefited from the suffering of others were the enablers, and that's what's missing from this movie. The victims deserve ownership, but no one dared to face the cameras and give it.

Scale- I give this movie a six because it needed more accountability.