'There's a fear about being angry, and often that fear is directed at women.'
"There's a fear about being angry, and often that fear is directed at women."How far does one have to bend before they break? It's a question that 11 women contend with in Sarah Polley'sThe film follows the women of an isolated Mennonite colony grappling with the appalling discovery that the men have been routinely drugging and sexually abusing them.
This is a really good example of what she's like. When we were in Toronto at the film festival, we shot it there, obviously. So, there were lots of people who'd worked on the movie who came to see the film in the cinema. In her opening speech at the festival, she said, "I'd like everybody who was part of the movie to stand up and we're gonna give you a round of applause because you made this possible." And everyone gave them a round of applause.
I think there's a fear about being angry. Often, that fear is directed at women—women aren't allowed to be angry or anger is a terrible emotion. I think that's often what I felt with Salome, was that anger was what she had left. She couldn't be sad. I think that people often feel angry cause they're sad or fearful and I think that she couldn't be either of those things.
There's lots of things in the book about Salome basically going against the elders in the community and the colony. Yet, somehow she remains still part of the colony. I think a lot of that has to do with her heart and how she accepts everybody and loves everybody and is incredibly maternal and very caring. I also think the film deals really well with the concept of masculine and feminine and the understanding that those can live in people in a different way.
And she's not in a place of forgiveness. She's absolutely not in a place of being understanding about it, nor should she be. I don't think she has a concept of what staying and fighting means. I think it's a bit redundant to think that she's thinking they're gonna take up swords and start fighting the men. I don't think that's what she means.
I did find it really helpful, actually. I think to do with stamina and understanding how to make things fresh and new for yourself, even though you've done it a bazillion times. And use of language was something that I really lent on. I think that there's a lot of meaty, really robust language in the movie, and that could be quite scary. But, I really feel like I had to own the texture and the way these women were speaking and the words they were using to express themselves.
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