This week’s adventures in film
Women Talking Incredibly elusive film this, so I ended up going to Saturday morning pictures to catch it. Very much my cup of tea though. Debate on ethics and morality, with a great cast and an emotional thwack thrown in for free? Count me in! This is a fictional imagining of what might have happened after a real life event where 150 women were systematically drugged and abused by the male members of a Mennonite Community in Bolivia. The women are gaslit to believe the attacks are 'female imagination'. Once the abuse is discovered, the men of the community head away to town to bail the accused from jail leaving the women with an ultimatum. Either the women forgive their abusers, or if not, they should leave and will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The next hour and a half on screen is the debate amongst the women to decide what to do. As a response to #MeToo, I found it really effective in covering the issues without g...