A very nice guy

When the MeToo era seems to have gone out of fashion because "everything is in peace" and "justice has been done," I stop to look inward to see what happened in my country and Latin America. I realize that it is nothing like Hollywood portraits, where the perpetrators of violence were persecuted and brought to justice. Here, those who were persecuted and punished were the ones who dared to raise their voices. It was never just about one man but about a whole system, a culture, and so far, I have not seen any audiovisual product that talks about it, about the culture of silence. I am sorry to say it, but "the bad guys of the story" are us, who continue to cover up rapists and help them to silence the whistleblowers. In Mexico, at least, we bathed for a couple of months in their tears when their funds for filming were temporarily threatened. They lived an illusion of lost success, but as soon as MeToo went out of fashion, the women who denounced it disappeared from the map. The rapists flourished, waking up from a nightmare where they did not learn anything and only played victims for a while, just like their accomplices.
The reality in Latin America has to come to light. Neither restorative justice nor any other in this country has been done; few people found out about what happened, and even fewer people cared significantly if it did not affect them directly. During our brief MeToo, we did see a union among women. Still, the most significant wave was the enormous amount of people who revictimized the complainants, fighting for nothing to change. When it was "over," they all took care of wiping these women off the map and implemented minimal measures just for show. Yes, there is still a lot of violence in the sets; the women who denounced lost; I do not know of a single case of success; hundreds are still legally silenced, and hundreds or thousands of others quit the cinema, frustrated and tired of fighting so hard just for nothing to change; the few defendants who have a little shame, keep a low profile today, few asked for genuine apologies, and the wounds are still open and maybe with time they will heal. Still, I honestly do not think I will see it. Thus is born "A very nice guy," because our MeToo was more like a "Nothing happened here," 'cause at the end everyone said: "Come on! but he's such a nice guy!"
As my friend Laura says, If you have an industry in which the professional value is based on the mistreatment of the other person instead of the actual value of the work, you are building a violent environment.
“A very nice guy” invites you to look inward and stop pretending "nothing happened."