Review of Women Talking (2022) by Ambleredward — 18 Feb 2023

Overpraised film in my opinion despite the stellar acting. There's clearly a justified rage and causation in this community. There's clearly trauma that has been inflicted, but the setting where this occurred is so confined to the "menfolk" outside of this barn that it both paints the real Amish and Mennonite communities with a broad brush without enlarging its scope to actual events in modern day religious-agrarian societies.

As a male, I agree that the male hierarchies and toxic masculinity have and continue to oppress, but this time and place was so artificial as to sabotage a larger message. An example of how myopic and contrived this place was, there was 90 minutes of debate of whether the women should leave or not, and not once does anyone ask how they can even afford a parcel of land when they weren't even permitted to learn to read.