Women Talking (2022)

For a movie about an American religious community in 2010 that operates as though women are nothing but property without rights -- even when some of its members have been arrested for raping women and girls after rendering them unconscious -- this was crazy boring.

The conversation and ideas presented didn't feel in any way natural. Even if this had been set in the 1700s, the women ran from "too trusting" to "too forward-thinking." Most of the women (and girls) seemed to possess modern-day understanding while still holding fast to the belief that what the men told them was true. How could they believe the elders who told them they wouldn't go to heaven if they didn't forgive the rapists while also holding the knowledge that these same elders blamed imagination and demons for their bruised and bleeding bodies?

I hated this so much. It was reductive and infuriating.

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