This was originally a successful New York stage play and stars William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt who give good lead performances. However, the problems for many stage plays turned into films include lack of location, actors, dialogue and contrived endings. Unfortunately Oleanna has all of these problems and a clumsy chauvinistic plot.
It portrays three meetings and conversations between two people as a series of misunderstandings. It also appears to predict the whole #me too movement and the courageous battle against sexual harassment and sexual assault but lazily infers the student is mistaken in her conversations with her college professor. He in my opinion is guilty of saying much of what he is accused. However, although easily misinterpreted he should not have said what he did in the first place.
During the conversations he is condescending and alarmingly dismissive of higher education. Throughout she takes notes and her interpretation of them leads to a formal complaint. The final scenes of the film is an improbable third meeting between the pair with an unnecessary ending to redress the films awful portrayal of the student and remove any sympathy for the college professor.
It portrays three meetings and conversations between two people as a series of misunderstandings. It also appears to predict the whole #me too movement and the courageous battle against sexual harassment and sexual assault but lazily infers the student is mistaken in her conversations with her college professor. He in my opinion is guilty of saying much of what he is accused. However, although easily misinterpreted he should not have said what he did in the first place.
During the conversations he is condescending and alarmingly dismissive of higher education. Throughout she takes notes and her interpretation of them leads to a formal complaint. The final scenes of the film is an improbable third meeting between the pair with an unnecessary ending to redress the films awful portrayal of the student and remove any sympathy for the college professor.