but it's hard to point to what exactly might be wrong. Big things go on behind closed doors, or off-screen, or at a fancy hotel uptown. This is such an effective approach to the explosive topic of corruption, abuse of power, and what might be called an "unfriendly" (putting it mildly) work environment. And so you hear fragments of conversation in passing, or if Jane's mind is on something else, then the conversations taking place right next to her are muted, distorted. In literary terms, it's close first-person. Green narrows the point of view so severely that we are solely in Jane's experience. This is such a good approach, and way easier said than done. "The Assistant" works through inference, mostly, during its detailed deep-dive into Jane's mundane everyday tasks performed in an atmosphere heavy with subtext, dropped hints, missing pieces, stray details that may be ominous or may be nothing at all since the larger picture is both obvious and obscured, simultaneously. "The Assistant" takes place during one very long day, when Jane comes to sense that something may be "off," with her boss for sure, but also in the company he created, and an environment that protects/ignores/denies what is really going on. She works side by side with two other assistants (both men), and occasionally has to go up to other floors to pass out new script drafts for upcoming projects. It is a great company and a tremendous opportunity for her. The new kid on the block, she gets the "shit detail" of handling travel arrangements, greeting guests, bringing danishes into conference rooms, and then sweeping up the danish crumbs afterwards. Jane has only been on the job for 5 weeks, and is fully acclimated (or indoctrinated) to the semi-terrifying office culture.
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Julia Garner plays Jane, an assistant at a movie production company (obviously modeled on Miramax), located in a couple of buildings in lower Manhattan. "The Assistant," a very good film, is especially good on power dynamics. Being referred to as "He" where no one ever asks "Who are you talking about?". He is referred to just as "he." Although this is never commented on explicitly, by the characters in "The Assistant," or by the talented filmmaker Kitty Green, who wrote and directed the film, the constant references to "He" (no name necessary) is a pointed commentary. He is never referred to by name, even though every conversation is about him. It's probably more accurate to say he is the atmosphere. And yet he hovers over every scene like a dark thick cloud, creating an atmosphere-threatening, tense-even in his absence (and he is mostly absent). Other than that: his voice is heard through the door, through the thin office walls, through the phone: you can hear the tone, but the words are always garbled.
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You never see the boss in full in "The Assistant." At the most, he is a dark blur passing in front of the camera on his way somewhere (he's always on his way somewhere).
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