‘Women Talking’ is about what happens after a group of men rape more than 100 women in their religious colony. Drawn from true events, the movie doesn’t dwell on the horror of what the men did but rather asks what the women will do in response.
As the movie opens, the accused men have been jailed in a nearby town, and the other men in the community — complicit in spirit, if not in action — have gone to bail them out, leaving the women behind. The movie makes no mention of setting, as if to suggest that this story, filmed with English-speaking actors, could be taking place anywhere.
As it unfolds, the movie etches a portrait of women who, even apart from the assaults, have only ever known lives of oppression. None of them was ever taught to read or write, so the task of taking the minutes of their meeting falls to a sympathetic schoolteacher named August — the movie's only significant male character, sensitively played by Ben Whishaw.
There's obvious contemporary resonance to a story about holding male abusers accountable, though it would be reductive to describedrama, as some have. What distinguishes this survival story from so many others is that, even as it acknowledges the abusive, patriarchal power structure in this religious colony, it still takes seriously the question of spiritual belief: It's the women's faith in God that ultimately empowers them to imagine a better, fairer way of life.
comes to a deeply moving resolution, but it also knows that the conversation is just getting started.
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