Alana Gray

The Assistant is a film that tells a strong yet horrifying story in a way that reflects life. When something horrifying (or at least something wrong) occurs, there are no grand moments of intensity, no great testament, no major moment of heroism where everyone is saved in the end. Sometimes there isn't even a solution. In a world where you're either If you're a woman, a cog in the corporate machine, or both you see things that will make you want to look away. Not simply due to the filthy nature of the acts committed, but because of how they are often a part of our reality. The gaslighting, the invisibility outside of our jobs, they want to speak up in an immoral situation but not having the ability to do so. All of these things impact all of us, whether you've lived. Personally, the monotony of the day that we are taken through in this film felt as if I was living a version of my life through another set of eyes. The Assistant is not a high-set action film and it's not explicit in its message. It's extraordinarily subtle in the perfect way. Some will feel a great connection to it, while others will feel none. The former will feel seen. The latter may feel nothing at all. However, every viewer should feel unsettled by the brutal sample of real life that plays across the screen.