A woman finally gets the job she's been waiting for, but a sweet offer never comes without a bitter aftertaste
Sweet Things tackles the harassment of women, not through overt misbehavior, but the subtle lack of respect exhibited in the workplace by men with power.
The film had a hell of an impact on me as a man, and as a boss, and was an opportunity for self-reflection. It is based on a real life situation with a woman meeting a potential employer who’s not that interested in her actual qualifications. Scriptwriter Line Dalheim observed the scene at a café in Oslo in 2015, and she found the behavior of the potential employer a bit off, yet noticed that she felt mad at the woman going along with it.
It’s a catch-22 that too many women know all too much about. What Sweet Things does so well is it never turns the boss into a caricature, and it’s really difficult to pin down any specific thing that he does that is offensive—it’s a fuzzy accumulation of cues. If you can’t see what’s wrong in Sweet Things, then you’re part of the problem. And as a man, I think that is a lot of us.
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A woman finally gets the job she's been waiting for, but a sweet offer never comes without a bitter aftertaste
Sweet Things tackles the harassment of women, not through overt misbehavior, but the subtle lack of respect exhibited in the workplace by men with power.
The film had a hell of an impact on me as a man, and as a boss, and was an opportunity for self-reflection. It is based on a real life situation with a woman meeting a potential employer who’s not that interested in her actual qualifications. Scriptwriter Line Dalheim observed the scene at a café in Oslo in 2015, and she found the behavior of the potential employer a bit off, yet noticed that she felt mad at the woman going along with it.
It’s a catch-22 that too many women know all too much about. What Sweet Things does so well is it never turns the boss into a caricature, and it’s really difficult to pin down any specific thing that he does that is offensive—it’s a fuzzy accumulation of cues. If you can’t see what’s wrong in Sweet Things, then you’re part of the problem. And as a man, I think that is a lot of us.
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A woman finally gets the job she's been waiting for, but a sweet offer never comes without a bitter aftertaste
Sweet Things tackles the harassment of women, not through overt misbehavior, but the subtle lack of respect exhibited in the workplace by men with power.
The film had a hell of an impact on me as a man, and as a boss, and was an opportunity for self-reflection. It is based on a real life situation with a woman meeting a potential employer who’s not that interested in her actual qualifications. Scriptwriter Line Dalheim observed the scene at a café in Oslo in 2015, and she found the behavior of the potential employer a bit off, yet noticed that she felt mad at the woman going along with it.
It’s a catch-22 that too many women know all too much about. What Sweet Things does so well is it never turns the boss into a caricature, and it’s really difficult to pin down any specific thing that he does that is offensive—it’s a fuzzy accumulation of cues. If you can’t see what’s wrong in Sweet Things, then you’re part of the problem. And as a man, I think that is a lot of us.
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