In Oscars contender Women Talking, inspired by a devastating true story of mass sexual assault, a group of women in an isolated community grapple with whether to forgive, stay and fight, or leave.
-esque fields, or hovering over the action in God's-eye views that evoke the dissociative nature of the women's survival mechanism.
At one point, a hot census taker, all Ray-Bans and stubble, arrives in a pick-up truck like a drifter from a 90s road movie, blasting the Monkees' Daydream Believer over a loudspeaker. It's an incursion of reality that's somehow more unreal than anything in the film, as though the movie is experiencing its own out-of-body moment – run-of-the-mill masculinity as transcendent, hallucinatory fever.
It's a film with a lot on its mind, and a genuine desire to engage with complexity, especially as it relates to the nature – and nurture – of masculinity.Like Mara's Ona, Polley isn't without empathy for the film's villains, who she identifies as victims of a broken system.
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