'Women Talking' isn’t about suffering at the hands of patriarchy; it’s about envisioning a future beyond patriarchy. thatelizasmith writes
I once asked a friend if she remembered her leaving moment: those first seconds of physically and finally removing herself from her ex-husband, who had abused her for years. Did she feel triumphant? Terrified? It seemed monumental; surely her memory would have held on to it. She couldn’t recall. Startled, I realized that I couldn’t remember the moment I left my own husband. Myhadn’t been abusive, but the catalyzing events — a pregnancy and miscarriage — had been harrowing in other ways.
August Epp , the boys’ schoolteacher, records the women’s meetings at the request of Ona , a single woman who is several months pregnant by her rapist. Girls are not taught to read or write in the colony, but the women’s illiteracy never renders their conversations any less philosophical, poetic, or fierce.
The conversations are weighty and tense, often heated, but occasionally dip into levity: when the women dissolve into shared laughter, or the two school-age girls pantomime their boredom or stage a prank. Toews is a master of the tragicomic, and Polley, who also wrote the screenplay, clearly recognizes her genius: I’ve never seen an adaptation that lifts so many lines from the original text.
I may not be able to recall my own leaving moment, but I do remember the precarious, optimistic feeling of leaving one world for another that didn’t quite exist yet.
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