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"Women Talking" film
Aug. 16th, 2023 10:14 pmWomen Talking, directed by Sarah Polley. Source: Library DVD.
A group of women from an isolated religious order gather to discuss what actions to take after their colony has experienced brutal violence and gas-lighting from their own men. They are trying to determine whether all the women should stay and fight, or leave the colony. There are women and girls of all ages taking part in the discussion.
This is a great film, I was into it. Unfortunately I had a really hard time seeing the people's faces and expressions and...anything at all. Here is a still demonstrating the de-saturated quality of this film. It all just runs together; each object or body blends in with everything around it, it's all just gray, brown and black. The object that stands out most is a bucket in the corner of the frame.
My TV is an older one and I'm playing the disc on the older X-box; maybe this looked better on a big screen in a theater. Maybe the settings on my TV are off; but looking at stills online, it's still hard to see anything.
Maybe the Barbie movie will bring back color in films. One can hope.
ETA: i put some more examples of de-saturation on Tumblr which is a visual place:
https://www.tumblr.com/moocowmoocow/725871371357503488/we-are-lying-in-the-sun-when-were-done-find-a?source=share
A group of women from an isolated religious order gather to discuss what actions to take after their colony has experienced brutal violence and gas-lighting from their own men. They are trying to determine whether all the women should stay and fight, or leave the colony. There are women and girls of all ages taking part in the discussion.
This is a great film, I was into it. Unfortunately I had a really hard time seeing the people's faces and expressions and...anything at all. Here is a still demonstrating the de-saturated quality of this film. It all just runs together; each object or body blends in with everything around it, it's all just gray, brown and black. The object that stands out most is a bucket in the corner of the frame.
My TV is an older one and I'm playing the disc on the older X-box; maybe this looked better on a big screen in a theater. Maybe the settings on my TV are off; but looking at stills online, it's still hard to see anything.
Maybe the Barbie movie will bring back color in films. One can hope.
ETA: i put some more examples of de-saturation on Tumblr which is a visual place:
https://www.tumblr.com/moocowmoocow/725871371357503488/we-are-lying-in-the-sun-when-were-done-find-a?source=share
