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The Handmaid’s Tale Is a Riveting, Relevant, and Political Drama, So Why Won’t the Creators Say So?
Indie Wire ^ | April 22, 2017 | Chris O'Falt

Posted on 04/22/2017 7:29:44 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Last night, Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. A frightening and incredibly gripping piece of visual storytelling from cinematographer-turned-director Reed Morano, it stands as a remarkable piece of art that speaks to atrocities committed against women around the world and throughout history.

While writer and executive producer Bruce Miller began developing the 33-year-old novel before the rise of Donald Trump, the story of women who have been stripped of all agency to exist solely as breeding vessels for the patriarchy seems all too prescient in a 2017 when immigrants are being separated from their children, facts are “alternative,” and women are losing access to healthcare at the hands of a president who’s admitted sexual assault on audiotape.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: handmaid; handmaids; handmaidstale; hollywood; thehandmaidstale
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I've read most of Atwood's books and her early ones are the best. They're good reads and many are actually funny.

OTOH...Atwood has given an interview about the new series and she's delighted that it is coming out, because she sees "women losing "rights" ( she's gung-ho PROABORTION and "FEMINAZI" crap )under President Trump.

21 posted on 04/22/2017 8:14:06 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: EdnaMode
While writer and executive producer Bruce Miller began developing the 33-year-old novel before the rise of Donald Trump, the story of women who have been stripped of all agency to exist solely as breeding vessels for the patriarchy seems all too prescient in a 2017 when immigrants are being separated from their children, facts are “alternative,” and women are losing access to healthcare at the hands of a president who’s admitted sexual assault on audiotape.

That's an impressive amount of propaganda and outright lies packed into one paragraph:

the story of women who have been stripped of all agency to exist solely as breeding vessels for the patriarchy seems all too prescient

Orly? Propaganda item #1. Why would the situation described above be "prescient" in any way, shape, or form?

in a 2017 when immigrants are being separated from their children

Propaganda item #2. Somebody left out an adjective. Oh, that's right: it should say illegal immigrants, and, of course, if they're being separated from their children, that's only by choice, because they could obviously stay together if they wanted to accompany their lawbreaking family member to the third-world hellhole from which he or she came.

facts are “alternative"

Propaganda item #3. The "alternative facts" are those which the Democrats and Media (but I repeat myself) promulgate, such as, obviously, the "facts" from this very article.

The intended target of this slur was obviously the conservative side of the political spectrum, but here it is being actually exemplified by the Left.

and women are losing access to healthcare

Absolute lie.

at the hands of a president who’s admitted sexual assault on audiotape.

Absolute lie.

So, lessee, I count at least three items of propaganda and two outright lies, all contained in a paragraph consisting of a single sentence...

I'm sure the remainder of the article is every bit as compelling...

22 posted on 04/22/2017 8:14:43 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: EdnaMode

ISIS, Boko Haram and other Muslim fundamentalist groups are recreating the world of “Handmaiden’s Tale”, not Christians.
But liberal secularists have been fighting the boogeyman of Christian theocracy for so long, they can’t see the real and multiple fronts of Islamic theocratic rule rising.
However, they are already censoring criticism of existing Islamic theocracies like Saudi Arabia and Iran, so the inability to condemn the new ones is not a surprise.


23 posted on 04/22/2017 8:18:04 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: nickcarraway
"We", "1984", "Brave New World", "Anthem", "Player Piano", "The Iron Heel"

I had to read most of these titles in a Sci-Fi class at Georgia Tech in the mid 80's, the theme of which was "dystopias"...

24 posted on 04/22/2017 8:21:59 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: nickcarraway
I read WE after I had read BRAVE NEW WORLD and 1984, at 14/15 and then read ANTHEM, which is the only Rand book that I not only enjoyed, but wasn't bored by.

Le Guin is, as is Atwood, a rabid lefty and something of an America hater. Her books are GARBAGE! People can change sex on a whim? GIVE ME A BREAK!

25 posted on 04/22/2017 8:23:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: sargon
the story of women who have been stripped of all agency to exist solely as breeding vessels for the patriarchy seems all too prescient in a 2017

The birth rate is below replacement rate. If anything, it's the opposite of what she projected.

26 posted on 04/22/2017 8:26:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: A_perfect_lady
Have you read the book?

A bit of it ( how the heroine of the title is impregnated ) is right out of the Bible....how Abraham impregnates Hagar, Sarah's "handmaid"; hence the title of the series, the movie and the book both were based on.

27 posted on 04/22/2017 8:27:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: EdnaMode

Had to do a book report on it.
I said it was absolute pap.
Teacher was a fanboi of pap, apparently.


28 posted on 04/22/2017 8:29:17 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Atwood is an America HATING lefty Canadian, who wrote this political polemic, when Reagan was president. Now with President Trump, she’s all googlie-eyed about “how spot on and timely” this book is...yet again. :-(


29 posted on 04/22/2017 8:29:55 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: EdnaMode
Brace yourself & think about strawberries Offred. Image and video hosting by TinyPic "OK, you're good to go Fred. Put the blocks to her." Image and video hosting by TinyPic
30 posted on 04/22/2017 8:46:42 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: EdnaMode

The only people using women exclusively as “breeders” are homosexuals.


31 posted on 04/22/2017 8:56:43 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: montag813

Yes, funny how leftists Fantis about hoe evil Christians are suppose to be, but turn the other way at actual evil by the Mohametans...


32 posted on 04/22/2017 9:14:09 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But they still haven’t made a film out of The Wheel of Time.

If there's going to be another TV series done from epic fantasy, I'd rather see an adaptation of Joe Abercrombie's "First Law" series. Unlike either Robert Jordan or George RR Martin, Abercrombie knows how to finish a story and he does it in very effective fashion. Between beginning and end he packs a lot of dark humor, surprising twists and engaging characters, along with the requisite violence and magical plot devices. I'd only ask that they don't let the show runners from "Game of Thrones" anywhere near it.
33 posted on 04/22/2017 9:42:35 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Jordan was using the term “Game of Houses” in WOT years ago, which is probably where “Game of Thrones” stole it from.


34 posted on 04/22/2017 9:49:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: EdnaMode

Illustrative in that just from the trailer and reading a bit about this insane rambling idiocy we can see how left-wing radicals live in a bizarre fantasy world. They must be doing more drugs than we suspect.


35 posted on 04/22/2017 10:14:28 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I agree. I also read the book as it had been highly acclaimed. Although I can remember nothing specific about the story, I do remember it was tough to read because it was so boring and negative.

Aha! I just found a snippet of the book which now jogs my memory and reminds me how truly mind-numbingly awful it was:

“She blinked, the light was too strong for her, her mouth trembled, around her front teeth, teeth that stuck out a little and were long and yellowish, and I thought about the dead mice we would find on the doorstep, when we lived in a house, all three of us, four counting our cat, who was the one making these offerings. Aunt Lydia pressed her hand over her mouth of a dead rodent.”

After that awful book I never had any desire to read anything else by Margaret Atwood.


36 posted on 04/22/2017 10:36:02 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: EdnaMode

Margaret Atwood wasted a lot of readers’ time and killed a lot of trees to convey a four word message, “Men bad, women good.”


37 posted on 04/22/2017 10:55:30 PM PDT by Entropy Squared (The Rush to Chaos)
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To: EdnaMode

This crap has to be the most overrated dystopian tale of all time. As this article shows one has to tie oneself into knots trying to find current events or societal trends that somehow match the fictional world. The only thing I have seen coming close to what Atwood wrote is rich Westerners renting wombs of 3rd World Women. But of course the Western rent a womb tend to be part of the Left, especially the G in LGBT, so we need to not to mention that.


38 posted on 04/23/2017 4:21:09 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I think you are unaware of how women even in the United States are treated. In Texas I could not buy a car in the 60’s because women were still chattel even though I had a full time job and was the mother of 3 kids. Abuse of women is another poorly recognized area of malfeasance in the legal system.

The Handmaid’s Tale is exactly what women will face in an Islamic world. I will work to prevent that the rest of of my life if necessary.


39 posted on 04/23/2017 4:26:55 AM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: EdnaMode

and women are losing access to healthcare at the hands of a president who’s admitted sexual assault on audiotape.

What a crock of crap. Constant lies. Constant hate and they wonder why people are getting pissed off. Keep it up.


40 posted on 04/23/2017 5:11:10 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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