Women Talking - Sarah Polley Makes Perfect, Difficult Films
Content & Trigger Warning: this episode discusses sexual assault in the film and in real life.
THE ARC'S TAKE
We argue that "Women Talking" only looks plotless if you're measuring plot by what happens on screen instead of what it costs to decide anything at all — and that the film's real subject isn't the assault but the coerced forgiveness that lets it keep happening.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Women Talking, Sarah Polley's quiet, devastating film about the women of a Mennonite colony who discover they've been drugged and assaulted by the men in their community — and who spend two days in a barn…
The skinny
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