We don’t need to see the violence of Women Talking to understand its magnitude. The aftermath is more than enough.
Despite all of this, though, Sarah Polley’s film is not hard to watch. It’sThe film is based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, which itself is a reaction to the very grim real-life events that occurred in a remote and isolated Mennonite community. There, between 2005 and 2009, over 100 girls and women woke up to discover they had been raped while sleeping.
In the film, one of these same lines – originally used to discredit women – is used in the opening scenes: “What follows is an act of female imagination”.is set within an isolated religious colony where the women and girls have been subjected to drugging, sexual abuse, and beatings for years. As the movie opens, the women have reached their breaking point.
But the women have come up with different options for themselves: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave and create a new colony. Democratically, they select three families to decide their fate. Among them are Ona , an unmarried woman who has fallen pregnant as a result of the attacks, and her sister, Salome . Mariche , Agata , Greta , and – briefly – a very severe Frances McDormand make up the numbers. As the colony’s women aren’t taught to read or write, they also bring one man into their group to document their meeting: local schoolteacher August, perfectly portrayed by Ben Whishaw.
A film like this has two difficult things to balance. The first: to manage being very frank and upfront about something very awful, as it can’t dilute its subject matter. Indeed, its subject matter is literally the impetus for these conversations the women are having. The second, of course, is to avoid feeling as if someone has turned a camera upon a play – because, much like a play, it’s a story that a) takes place in a single room, and b) unfolds entirely through conversation.
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