Greetings Womyn:
I recently joined grrlactivistas and have not introduced myself as of
yet--today. My name is Carmen and I live in Cleveland, Ohio. I have been
reading the dialogue on Polanski et al. but not on a regular basis. But I did
just read the comment regarding Pedro Almodovar's film Talk to Her--I think the
film does the opposite of what the last woman suggests. I think it is a
poignant film about the invisibility of women and how men not only do not see
women/but they exploit them on a regular basis--i.e. the beginning sequence
which depicted two women in pain and the one male negotiating between the two
women moving the chairs so the two women would not bump into them--so how
chivalrous, right? The man never acknowledged their core issue--why they were in
pain. He did not see her? I think the title of the film Talk to Her says it
all--men don't talk to women; but they interact with them all the time. The
fact that these two women were comatose was an exaggeration of our
existence--our living in a culture of rape. He also had a seen where some
secondary characters were discussing the rape of nuns by Catholic priests in
Africa--that is a real present issue that the world and the Vatican has ignored
and he has used his film as a means to spread that truth. So I respectfully
disagree with you.
The Roman Polanski thang disturbs me even more because of Adrian Brody's
response when he won the Oscar--he just grabbed Halle Berry and kissed her
without her permission/she was visibly shaken and had to play it off goes it was
a live telecast AND she is a dv survivor. So, it was multiple shit goin' down
at the Oscar--yet another show of patriarchy's presence . . . .
In sisterhood,
Carmen