I suspect I won’t be alone in saying that I went into “Bombshell” with a touch of skepticism. The movie is a lively and scabrous docudrama — not a snarkfest (though some of it is biting…
, a network built on the toxic DNA of corruption and lies. Would the film acknowledge their complicity in that? Or would it be a Hollywood whitewash?
The film invites us to see the moxie it took for Kelly to face Trump down, and to deal with the consequences of his hideous remarks. But after the situation has settled a bit, she agrees to do a one-on-one interview with Trump, and when she’s in a Fox editing suite watching the tape, her own husband, Doug , calls her on the carpet — for going too easy on Trump, letting him off the hook.
Kelly, however, is rocking the boat. She’s poking holes in the candidate by embracing a feminist agenda, and in doing so she’s tweaking the secret weapon of Fox News: that it’s selling a kind of pornography — a fusion of leering and vengeance. It’s right-wing red meat decorated with blow-dried-blonde cheesecake.
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