Just caught a local screening with my parents, with a post-screening Q&A w/ Ivy Meeropol, though it was primarily an audience Q&A which was uh kinda interesting. Should say off the bat that I really enjoyed the movie, I really didn’t know much about E. Jean Carroll beyond the facts of the lawsuits, I didn’t know she had her own show and was such a vibrant personality herself beyond all the shit that happened with trump, so that was a lot of fun to discover before the movie got serious with its retelling of the horrifying shit trump did and the ensuing legal battles she fought post-metoo after he kept defaming her even after she won the first time. It’s obvs an aggravating movie to watch but I was ready to throw fists when this one fucking chud asshole in the audience had the gall to ask the director why she didn’t include the part where e. jean admits to not remembering the year of the assault, a traumatizing experience she tried repressing for decades, before saying that the results of those trials were the worst miscarriages of justice during his life. Dude was like “Jean should’ve given an exact date and time so trump could figure out where he was so he could be like ‘oh I was in my jet that day!’ and exonerate himself in court” and our whole theater started yelling and booing the guy which was really funny. The dude like didn’t properly leave the theater after the Q&A, lurking around the opposite corner of the lobby trying to hide in a separate crowd, so somebody from the movie theater stayed to personally assist Ivy back to her car in order to avoid the chud asshole potentially accosting her any further. So that was a crazy experience, lmao I was holding myself back from raising my hand specifically just to curse that guy out. Just don’t understand how u could watch a movie like this and still think our president didn’t do all that shit. Lmao I hate maga people so much. Anyways here’s hoping this movie gets proper distribution cuz it’s worth being seen. Lmao I did ask Ivy if she’s considered the letterboxd video store as a potential route so if this movie ever pops up in there u guys can thank me. Actually, don’t do that, just go watch the movie!
