Posted on Dec 22, 2022
In 'Women Talking,' survivors must decide: Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave?
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Sarah Polley begins her adaptation of Miriam Toews' 2018 novel Women Talking with girls in long calico dresses braiding each other's hair amid haystacks, horses clip-clopping down dirt roads and children playing.
All appears idyllic in what looks like a timelessly remote religious colony, except for what none of the women has said aloud until a voiceover speaks for them: "When we woke up, feeling hands that were no longer there, the elders told us that it was the work of ghosts, or Satan, or that we were lying to get attention, or that it was an act of wild female imagination."
Sarah Polley begins her adaptation of Miriam Toews' 2018 novel Women Talking with girls in long calico dresses braiding each other's hair amid haystacks, horses clip-clopping down dirt roads and children playing.
All appears idyllic in what looks like a timelessly remote religious colony, except for what none of the women has said aloud until a voiceover speaks for them: "When we woke up, feeling hands that were no longer there, the elders told us that it was the work of ghosts, or Satan, or that we were lying to get attention, or that it was an act of wild female imagination."
In 'Women Talking,' survivors must decide: Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave?
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."An act of female imagination
So the women, most of whom cannot read or write, have decided to vote on their options — to do nothing, to stay and fight, or to leave — and as they gather in the barn, a legend comes on the screen: "What follows is an act of female imagination."
The jury-room drama 12 Angry Men long ago established that you could hold a cinema audience rapt with nothing more than spirited debate. Polley aims to do something similar, though with considerably more art and less visual constraint. Call it "Eight Angry Women"? Sure, but it's more than that.
The eight women remain in the barn because two of the three choices — stay and fight, or leave — have deadlocked, and they've been deputized to decide (with the colony's male schoolteacher taking notes) what all of them will do."...
..."An act of female imagination
So the women, most of whom cannot read or write, have decided to vote on their options — to do nothing, to stay and fight, or to leave — and as they gather in the barn, a legend comes on the screen: "What follows is an act of female imagination."
The jury-room drama 12 Angry Men long ago established that you could hold a cinema audience rapt with nothing more than spirited debate. Polley aims to do something similar, though with considerably more art and less visual constraint. Call it "Eight Angry Women"? Sure, but it's more than that.
The eight women remain in the barn because two of the three choices — stay and fight, or leave — have deadlocked, and they've been deputized to decide (with the colony's male schoolteacher taking notes) what all of them will do."...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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