Jamie Lee Curtis on the Power of ‘Halloween’s’ #MeToo Context: It Relieves ‘A Little Bit of That Trauma’

In the months leading up to Friday’s release of “Halloween,” it’s become clear that the film is meant as more than just another installment in the legendary horror franchise.

At Wednesday’s L.A.

premiere of the reboot, Jamie Lee Curtis hammered that point home.“The movie was written in January 2017 and it was a movie about trauma,” Curtis said.

“We never make movies about what happens after the violence.

We make movies about violence, we glorify it, but we never ask what happens [after].”“And in the asking what happens and seeing what generational trauma looks like, all of a sudden on Oct.

10, 2017, that first article came out in the New Yorker,” she continued.

“All of a sudden, women started talking about stories of violence perpetrated against them, sexual violence perpetrated against them, oppression perpetrated against them by powerful men in powerful positions who stole their innocence.”“And now all of a sudden,

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