A review by emergencily
Women Talking by Miriam Toews

4.0

  • about a Mennonite community where the women discover they've unknowingly been continuously drugged & assaulted by the men in their colony (sadly based on a real case)
  • follows the women's covert meetings as they decide what they should do next as a community in the aftermath of this discovery
  • its emphasis on religious forgiveness can feel burdensome but it makes sense given the context these women are operating from and their worldviews
  • addresses sexual assault as a structural issue and depicts a community based alternative to carceral/punitive forms of justice