Women Talking (2022) Screenplay Analysis

Sarah Polley’s third feature film as a writer-director, Women Talking is based on an epistolary novel based on true incidents, written by Miriam Toews. The plot revolves around a series of horrific rapes that terrorised the spiritually devout Christian Mennonite colony in Manitoba, Bolivia, between 2005 and 2009. The victims were sprayed with an anesthetic intended ...