Russell Simmons sexual assault documentary On the Record is powerful, necessary viewing: Sundance review
On the Record
did at Saturday’s Sundance premiere was an acknowledgment, maybe, of how difficult it has been to get this story to the screen: not just as its executive producer, but the years — if not decades — that its subject matter has been dismissed, ignored, or relegated to the margins.’s primary focus is the ongoing sexual abuse said to have been perpetrated by legendary music mogul, primarily against women of color.
Her value to his business was indisputable, though that didn’t stop him, the movie alleges, from aggressively attempting to seduce her — a failed pursuit that she says ultimately culminated in a brutal rape. Dixon wasn’t alone: Some 20 women have since come forward with strikingly similar accusations. What Dick and Ziering show, through interviews, archival clips and meticulous research, feels irrefutably damning.
But the movie’s larger message, driven home again and again by its interview subjects, touches a deeper nerve, too: the ugly fact of black women’s erasure from the largely white, privileged narrative of #MeToo, and the tangled obligations of race and cultural disapproval that often keep them silent, or simply unlistened to.survey course on ’90s hip-hop, which is engaging on its own terms, and maybe necessary context for the uninitiated, if not a little digressive.
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