A_Question_Of_Silence

A Question Of Silence “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” -- Rebecca West, 1913 Have you ever taken the time to listen for the voices of women in society' The film A Question of Silence (1982) is a bold political feminist separatist film that unveils the oppressive essence of gender relationships in society. The filmmaker, Marlene Gorris, displays this passionate theoretical and political subject through a story line that creates spellbinding drama with a little suspense included. Gorris used three very ordinary Dutch women, a housewife and mother, a secretary and a waitress to illustrate that this oppression cuts across all classes. Even though these three women are strangers to each other, they happen to be in the same boutique at the same time one day when all the pressures of their burdensome lives have fabricated to such an intensity that they take it out on the male shop keeper and beat him to death. During the incident the women do not speak, they bond with one another through looks not words. Personally, I find this women, society, speak, woman, three, silence, same, question, patriarchal, one, housewife, against, words, wives, time, through, stepford, secretary, roman, role, out, idea, cup, been, actions, waitress, voices, tries, takes, silenced, shots, shelton, scene, psychiatrist, powerful