This film belongs to that category whose message can only be fully grasped if you are a woman. Of course, that doesn't mean a man would understand nothing at all, but he wouldn't be able to seize every subtlety within the protagonists' reasoning.
The original title is far more evocative than the English one, because everything stems from Christine. Christine, who doesn't speak because she has never been listened to. Christine, who for the first time in her life does something, not out of instinct, nor out of obligation, but out of defiance. Christine, who for the first time in her life acts, exists, and speaks.
As for her accomplices, they also carried within them -though in a different way- the full weight of the patriarchy that kept them silent.
And in the middle of it all, the psychiatrist tasked with decreeing whether or not they were in control of their faculties. A woman, too.
This film is about women speaking through violence, because that is what patriarchy is, above all else. And yet, during the act they commit, they don't utter a single sound. Just like the female customers watching them do it.
Then, during the trial, the women laughed ; and I laughed with them.
This film belongs to that category whose message can only be fully grasped if you are a woman. Of course, that doesn't mean a man would understand nothing at all, but he wouldn't be able to seize every subtlety within the protagonists' reasoning.
The original title is far more evocative than the English one, because everything stems from Christine. Christine, who doesn't speak because she has never been listened to. Christine, who for the first time in her life does something, not out of instinct, nor out of obligation, but out of defiance. Christine, who for the first time in her life acts, exists, and speaks.
As for her accomplices, they also carried within them -though in a different way- the full weight of the patriarchy that kept them silent.
And in the middle of it all, the psychiatrist tasked with decreeing whether or not they were in control of their faculties. A woman, too.
This film is about women speaking through violence, because that is what patriarchy is, above all else. And yet, during the act they commit, they don't utter a single sound. Just like the female customers watching them do it.
Then, during the trial, the women laughed ; and I laughed with them.
