MONICA IN BLACK AND WHITE
2002

March 5, 2002
HBO
English

You will probably finish watching this with the same opinion you had before it started about who Monica Lewinsky is. Before I saw this I thought she was a misunderstood girl who thought that flirting with a married man was exciting and the fact that he was the POTUS only made the whole thing more exciting. She falls in love easily, big deal. After watching it I liked her even more. The crowd is mostly on her side, she breaks down several times, one guy asks her what its like to be the pre-eminent blow job specialist in the country. One powerful portion has a former student of the teacher that Monica slept with back in L.A. say that she too was abused by this teacher. The teacher is seen on file footage all but laughing at Monica for getting into trouble again. The timeline that the filmmakers use make the whole thing easy to follow and the tapes of Monica and Linda Tripp are hard to listen to. I liked it a lot.