Women.Talking.[2022.1080p_EngCP Movie Subtitles

0 00:00:52,326 --> 00:00:54,722 This story ends before you were born. 1 00:01:11,906 --> 00:01:13,411 Mother. 2 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,352 Again. 3 00:01:23,621 --> 00:01:24,917 When we woke up 4 00:01:24,952 --> 00:01:27,722 feeling hands that were no longer there, 5 00:01:27,757 --> 00:01:30,494 the elders told us that it was the work of ghosts 6 00:01:31,266 --> 00:01:32,397 or Satan. 7 00:01:36,304 --> 00:01:39,734 Or that we were lying to get attention. 8 00:01:39,769 --> 00:01:43,309 Or that it was an act of wild female imagination. 9 00:01:48,976 --> 00:01:50,514 It went on for years. 10 00:01:53,321 --> 00:01:54,452 To all of us. 11 00:02:03,892 --> 00:02:05,859 It felt like weightlessness. 12 00:02:07,566 --> 00:02:09,929 It felt like drifting over what used to be real. 13 00:02:13,275 --> 00:02:16,276 It felt like a banishment, 14 00:02:16,311 --> 00:02:17,805 as though we had no invitation anymore 15 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,675 to be a part of the real. 16 00:02:29,423 --> 00:02:30,818 I used to wonder who I would be 17 00:02:30,853 --> 00:02:33,722 if it hadn't happened to me. 18 00:02:33,757 --> 00:02:36,329 I used to miss the person I might have been. 19 00:02:37,431 --> 00:02:38,826 I don't anymore. 20 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,336 Because it's doomsday 21 00:02:43,371 --> 00:02:44,700 and a call to prayer. 22 00:02:45,901 --> 00:02:47,241 It's both. 23 00:02:54,349 --> 00:02:55,612 We caught one of them. 24 00:02:56,318 --> 00:02:57,647 I saw his face. 25 00:02:58,815 --> 00:03:00,551 And then he named the others. 26 00:03:01,752 --> 00:03:02,949 Come on. 27 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,399 Eventually the attackers 28 00:03:13,434 --> 00:03:15,599 were taken to the police in the city 29 00:03:15,634 --> 00:03:16,897 for their own protection. 30 00:03:24,676 --> 00:03:26,412 Almost all of the men of the colony 31 00:03:26,447 --> 00:03:27,611 went to the city to post bail 32 00:03:27,646 --> 00:03:28,876 for the attackers. 33 00:03:29,813 --> 00:03:31,384 We were given two days 34 00:03:31,419 --> 00:03:33,617 to forgive the attackers before they returned. 35 00:03:36,017 --> 00:03:37,588 If we did not forgive them 36 00:03:37,623 --> 00:03:39,722 we would be ordered to leave the colony 37 00:03:39,757 --> 00:03:42,692 and be denied entry into the Kingdom of Heaven. 38 00:03:53,969 --> 00:03:55,342 Do nothing. 39 00:03:58,006 --> 00:03:59,313 Stay and fight. 40 00:04:02,648 --> 00:04:03,648 Leave. 41 00:04:31,908 --> 00:04:35,481 Girls in our colony had very little schooling. 42 00:04:35,516 --> 00:04:37,780 We hardly knew how to read or to write. 43 00:04:38,684 --> 00:04:40,420 But that day, 44 00:04:40,455 --> 00:04:41,784 we learned how to vote. 45 00:05:36,137 --> 00:05:37,642 The vote was tied between 46 00:05:37,677 --> 00:05:40,678 staying and fighting, or leaving. 47 00:05:40,713 --> 00:05:43,615 So three families including yours and mine 48 00:05:43,650 --> 00:05:44,880 were elected to decide 49 00:05:44,915 --> 00:05:46,717 what the women of the colony would do. 50 00:05:56,531 --> 00:05:59,631 Your mother had asked, August, the school teacher, 51 00:05:59,666 --> 00:06:01,963 to take the minutes of our meeting. 52 00:06:01,998 --> 00:06:05,901 August came back to the colony just recently. 53 00:06:05,936 --> 00:06:08,871 His family had been excommunicated years ago. 54 00:06:17,519 --> 00:06:20,421 August had loved your mother since he was a boy. 55 00:06:37,803 --> 00:06:39,231 Before we began, 56 00:06:39,266 --> 00:06:40,903 your grandmother, Agata, 57 00:06:40,938 --> 00:06:43,444 told us we had to honor our service to each other. 58 00:06:44,546 --> 00:06:46,942 We had to represent it. 59 00:06:46,977 --> 00:06:48,713 Just as the disciples were washed 60 00:06:48,748 --> 00:06:51,243 by Jesus at the Last Supper, 61 00:06:51,278 --> 00:06:53,883 knowing that his hour had come. 62 00:06:57,592 --> 00:06:59,152 We only had 24 hours 63 00:06:59,187 --> 00:07:02,056 to imagine what world you would be born into. 64 00:07:05,897 --> 00:07:08,062 It is a part of our faith to forgive. 65 00:07:08,097 --> 00:07:10,009 We have always forgiven those who have wronged us. 66 00:07:10,033 --> 00:07:11,065 Why not now? 67 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:12,671 Because now we know better. 68 00:07:12,706 --> 00:07:14,134 We will be excommunicated, 69 00:07:14,169 --> 00:07:15,905 forced to leave the colony in disgrace 70 00:07:15,940 --> 00:07:17,643 if we do not forgive these men. 71 00:07:18,646 --> 00:07:19,975 And if we are excommunicated, 72 00:07:20,010 --> 00:07:22,945 we forfeit our place in Heaven. 73 00:07:22,980 --> 00:07:26,146 How could any of you live with the fear of that? 74 00:07:26,181 --> 00:07:28,522 These are legitimate fears. 75 00:07:29,789 --> 00:07:31,217 How can we address them? 76 00:07:31,252 --> 00:07:33,824 The only important thing to establish 77 00:07:33,859 --> 00:07:35,760 is if we forgive the men. 78 00:07:37,159 --> 00:07:39,359 So that we will be allowed to enter the gates of Heaven. 79 00:07:40,701 --> 00:07:41,975 You can laugh all you like, Salome, 80 00:07:41,999 --> 00:07:43,273 but we will be forced to leave the colony 81 00:07:43,297 --> 00:07:44,505 if we don't forgive the men. 82 00:07:45,673 --> 00:07:46,947 How will the Lord when he arrives 83 00:07:46,971 --> 00:07:48,740 find the women if we aren't in the colony? 84 00:07:48,775 --> 00:07:50,203 Jesus is able to return to life, 85 00:07:50,238 --> 00:07:51,743 live for thousands of years 86 00:07:51,778 --> 00:07:53,118 and then drop down to earth from Heaven 87 00:07:53,142 --> 00:07:54,306 to scoop up his supporters, 88 00:07:54,341 --> 00:07:56,044 surely he'd also be able to locate 89 00:07:56,079 --> 00:07:57,155 a few women who left their colony. 90 00:07:57,179 --> 00:07:58,211 Let's stay on track. 91 00:07:58,246 --> 00:07:59,619 All right. I'll stay on track. 92 00:07:59,654 --> 00:08:01,555 I cannot forgive them. 93 00:08:01,590 --> 00:08:03,084 I will never forgive them. 94 00:08:04,252 --> 00:08:05,724 I can't either. 95 00:08:07,321 --> 00:08:08,661 But we want to enter 96 00:08:08,696 --> 00:08:10,016 the Kingdom of Heaven when we die. 97 00:08:14,361 --> 00:08:16,097 We have everything we want here. 98 00:08:16,132 --> 00:08:17,230 No. 99 00:08:17,265 --> 00:08:18,704 Want less. 100 00:08:20,906 --> 00:08:22,114 Does entering the Kingdom of Heaven 101 00:08:22,138 --> 00:08:23,841 mean nothing to any of you? 102 00:08:23,876 --> 00:08:25,304 Surely there must be something 103 00:08:25,339 --> 00:08:27,944 worth living for in this life, not only in the next. 104 00:08:40,156 --> 00:08:41,859 Autje! 105 00:08:41,894 --> 00:08:43,069 - See you soon. It's all right. - Sorry. 106 00:08:43,093 --> 00:08:44,730 It's all right. It will be all right. 107 00:08:54,005 --> 00:08:56,104 Your grandmother used to say, 108 00:08:56,139 --> 00:08:58,172 "Find out where you can be of help 109 00:08:58,207 --> 00:09:00,647 "and leave what you can't help behind." 110 00:09:01,749 --> 00:09:02,847 I think that's easier 111 00:09:02,882 --> 00:09:04,651 when you're old like her. 112 00:09:04,686 --> 00:09:06,719 So we must decide now 113 00:09:06,754 --> 00:09:09,788 to stay and fight, or leave. 114 00:09:09,823 --> 00:09:11,955 Those are the options in front of us. 115 00:09:13,321 --> 00:09:15,695 We will not do nothing. 116 00:09:19,096 --> 00:09:22,163 I want to talk about my horses Ruth and Cheryl. 117 00:09:25,839 --> 00:09:27,718 When Ruth and Cheryl are frightened by Dueck's dogs 118 00:09:27,742 --> 00:09:30,402 on the mile road that leads to the church, 119 00:09:30,437 --> 00:09:32,338 their initial instinct is to bolt. 120 00:09:33,715 --> 00:09:34,780 Whoa! 121 00:09:36,377 --> 00:09:38,377 These horses don't organize meetings 122 00:09:38,412 --> 00:09:40,346 to decide what they will do. 123 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:42,018 They run. 124 00:09:42,053 --> 00:09:44,284 But, Greta, we are not animals. 125 00:09:44,319 --> 00:09:46,759 We have been preyed upon like animals. 126 00:09:46,794 --> 00:09:49,124 Maybe we should respond like animals. 127 00:09:49,159 --> 00:09:50,199 In my lifetime, I have seen 128 00:09:50,226 --> 00:09:52,160 horses confront angry dogs 129 00:09:52,195 --> 00:09:54,195 and try to stomp them to death. 130 00:09:54,230 --> 00:09:55,768 Animals don't always flee. 131 00:09:55,803 --> 00:09:57,308 Is this how we want to teach our daughters 132 00:09:57,332 --> 00:09:59,035 to defend themselves? 133 00:09:59,070 --> 00:10:00,168 By fleeing? 134 00:10:00,203 --> 00:10:01,301 Not fleeing but leaving. 135 00:10:01,336 --> 00:10:02,709 I was just talking about leaving. 136 00:10:02,744 --> 00:10:03,820 I would rather stand my ground 137 00:10:03,844 --> 00:10:04,953 and shoot each man in the heart 138 00:10:04,977 --> 00:10:06,273 and bury 'em in a pit than flee. 139 00:10:06,308 --> 00:10:08,022 And I'll deal with God's wrath if I have to. 140 00:10:08,046 --> 00:10:09,859 Salome, Aunt Greta is talking about leaving not fleeing. 141 00:10:09,883 --> 00:10:11,751 The word "fleeing" wasn't...