Posted on 02/06/2017 9:18:38 AM PST by TigerClaws
The Handmaid's Tale is an upcoming American television series based on the book of the same name by Margaret Atwood. It has been ordered by streaming service Hulu with a straight-to-series order, with the production beginning in late 2016.[1]
It will premiere on April 26, 2017.[2]
Plot for the novel is here.
Anti-Trump leftist paranoia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale
Note that crazy leftists WANT Muslims to come here who actually would create a hell on earth for women.
But you’ll never see a miniseries titled “The Muslimah’s Tale”.
I had to read this wretched book years ago.
My recollection is that the world was left with very few women (somehow). Due to this shortage, the future of the human race was in jeopardy. With women so scarce, they were of vital importance —
And so: Women were treated as property, like slaves. They were given no respect or consideration. Men ruled and did as they liked.
And I was thinking: This makes no sense.
Yep, it makes no sense at all. If women were so scarce, they would have ALL the power in society. It would be a matriarchy where men would be expendable slaves to provide for all the needs of the women.
This came out as a full length movie several years ago. The author, Canadian Margaret Atwood, sure hates the USA.
The premise is that the Christian right has taken over the USA and is misusing bible quotes to enslave women, sex slaves to be exact. Women can’t work, read, drive. Some get numbered tattoos on their forearms and are required to get pregnant.
Some interesting concepts, like Particicutions.
The TV series is bound to be worse, I suspect it will be full of anti-Trump propaganda.
I recall the 1990 film starring Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway wasn’t very good. But I’m no film critic....
I read that book a couple of decades ago. Islam was not on my radar at the time, but someone mentioned the book once after I became aware of the Muslim threat and I realized that it did put the US in the light of a repressed sharia type state.
The Japanese tourists exposed that the dystopian world in the book was US centric.
Goes to show that the Left has absolutely no understanding of the Law of Supply and Demand.
All these Leftist dystopian novels, movies and TV shows are in a world where Christians have somehow managed to impose a Christian theocracy on the country or large parts of the world. And the brave heroes risk getting killed for going against the strict Christian teachings. The Handmaid’s Tale is one. But V for Vendetta is another. They’re laughable since the chances of Christians being anywhere close to imposing a theocracy on the West are slim to none.
The irony is that there are a number of countries out there that actually have imposed a strict theocracy on their citizens where you get jailed or killed for violating religious law. But Hollywood doesn’t want to talk about them . . . .
It wasn’t that women were scarce. It was that fertile women were scarce. And it appeared to be only the US.
But yeah, it really was not a very good book.
I really don’t know what all the hubbub about this Handmaid’s Tale thing is. I saw the 1990 movie and was definitely not impressed.
If you can get past the apocalyptic reasons for infertility and the somewhat puritanical treatment of the ensuing society, it is nothing more than how a ‘maid’ convinces a master that the baby she carries is the master’s (IIRC).
A rather bland and un-engaging story as I recall.
The irony is that the world that Ms. Atwood described in her novel has become partly true in the areas under ISIS/ISIL control.
Women there are effectively treated like property. Evidently, this is not as objectionable as defeating a female candidate by following longstanding Constitutional processes.
men would be expendable slaves to provide for all the needs of the women.
Wait, isn’t that what we have now?
It had the late Natasha Richardson in it, who was one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood IMHO.
Her novels are almost unreadable but most are afraid to say so.
How many homosexuals were involved in the writing and production of this, I wonder?
Heavy handed political overt plots like this do more harm than good for the propagandists behind them. I’d not worry.
There is a reason the movie was so bad. Just like Atlas Shrugged. The characters and plot are simply not believable, even when you agree with the message of the story.
Not even snowflakes will watch this drivel. But, as with all free speech, it is within their drivel rights to produce it. Knock yourself out, bitches.
I think it stars that mouse-eared woman from the TV show `Mad Men’ who didn’t know she was pregnant until she saw a doctor and went into labor. She was giddy on IMBD over playing something “relevant”.
I saw the paranoid movie. This one shows all the signs of something tired already done that wasn’t that good to begin getting re-capped. So more strips of rubber lying on the side of the TV highway.
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