Midway through Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar's stirring documentary 9to5: The Story of a Movement, Jane Fonda briefly appears as the film's most famous talking head. Remembering the time they were making the hit 1980 comedy 9 to 5 inspired by various stories of workplace sexism collected from the period's fed-up administrative women, Fonda jokingly retells one particular vivid fantasy a female clerical worker had of killing her male supervisor - apparently, an all-too-common daydream among similarly ill-treated secretaries of the time. It goes something like mincing the boss in a coffee bean grinder and making drip coffee out of him.
As hilariously out-there as this imaginary revenge scenario might sound - so over-the-top that it couldn't be included in the Hollywood film with the iconic Dolly Parton song - it isn't hard to empathise with this employee's long-standing grievance deep down, thanks to all the narrative heavy-lifting co-directors Reichert and Bognar do in the lead-up to that scene.
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