REVIEW: 'Women Talking,' realsarahpolley's ensemble drama about a Mennonite community dealing with rampant assaults, tackles a difficult subject with sensitivity, honesty and a refusal to stay quiet.
Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey , Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Jessie Buckley in 'Women Talking.'stand their ground and fight — after all, this is their home, too. Many want to leave and start anew. There’s an option to vote for doing nothing, but really, the days of simply enduring and ignoring are long gone.
What has brought the various female members of a Mennonite community to this point is an epidemic. Maybeis a better description, given the extraordinary amount of damage that’s been done. The women have, over several years, been systematically drugged and then raped in their sleep. They have been told that it might be the work of ghosts, or perhaps Satan. Or maybe they’re just making all of this up for attention, the elders tell them — that it’s all just “an act of wild female imagination.
Numerous arrests are made. The remaining men go into town to raise bail money for the offenders, but not before informing the women that they have two days to “forgive” and forget. Failure to do so means they won’t gain entry into the kingdom of heaven. They will also be cast out of the community.talked about, and the dilemma this sorority of survivors faces.
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