Women Talking - Sarah Polley Makes Perfect, Difficult Films

Content & Trigger Warning: this episode discusses sexual assault in the film and in real life.

Episode Summary: this episode does eventually become "a very special episode" because the subject matter is difficult and portrays the evils of humanity and current human society, but prior to that it's pretty fun to discuss a film that arguably has "no plot" beyond women going into a barn to talk.

The background is that the women of a self-secluded community have been violently sexually assaulted for years, but some of the male perpetrators have finally been caught by the women and so the women have been given two days to decide if they should do nothing, stay and fight, or leave the community.

The plot is that a vote was taken between the three options, and the vote was essentially tied, so three families are chosen to talk through the three options.

They are though talking about an enormously important and emotional question: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave?

FULL INTERVIEWS WITH SARAH POLLEY:

"Making Women Talking: Sarah Polley explains why laughter was key to adapting Miriam Toews's novel" Q with Tom Power

"Sarah Polley unpacks Women Talking" Now Toronto

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