Extra Credit Question 5 Jess Cantu

At first watching the movie Oleanna was a struggle. Carol's voice got under my skin and she would keep interrupting the professor. I agree with J.K. Curry's statement, "The problem with Oleanna is that it is not really or not primarily, about sexual harassment at all, but rather about false allegations." When Carol went into his office the first time it was innocent. She wanted his help to understand the book he had written and possibly to gain his trust. The second meeting is a lot different from the first. She accuses him of things that he did not due just so that she could get him into trouble. He grabbed her wrist at one point to try and calm her down and talk to her and she turned it around on him and claimed that he raped her. The second part of what J.K. Curry said is true also, "Or, perhaps more accurately about exaggerated forms of harassment or distorted claims of harassment." She exaggerated being raped when all the professor did was try and calm her. And if she was being 'raped,' why would she continue to go to his office to talk to him. Maybe only to rub it in his face that she has the power to ruin his career, which she did. She became power hungry and would lie to get her way and to make she that the professor was fired.