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Reviewed by yodacola 8 / 10

A movie for rational thinkers, only.

Reviewed by FilmCriticLalitRao 8 / 10

A Question of Silence: Dutch director Marleen Gorris shows that even silence can effectively convey mature ideas.

In today's malevolent world, the banal incident of three unknown women teaming up to beat a male dress boutique owner to death would not at all raise eyebrows. However, close to three decades ago it created quite a sensation in Holland. Taking this absurd incident into account, Dutch director Marleen Gorris set out to make "De Stilte Rond Christine M"/A question of silence. The silence in question is that of one of the three women who opens up to some extent towards the end. The film is a good eye opener about the release of frustrations felt by three different albeit ordinary women from diverse educational as well as socioeconomic backgrounds. The story is counter balanced with the introduction of a fourth character, a psychiatrist whose objective is to prove that these women do possess sound minds even though they have taken part in a senseless killing. Although she wins the battle for these hapless women but ends up losing a major war with her lawyer husband. As a piece of entertainment-A question of silence succeeds with its focus on flashbacks and good music. It does not give everything to viewers by preparing them to get to know the story better. For example: there is a documentary cinema type feel in some good shots of the women's prison. As a lesson about the inequality of sexes, this film suffers due to its ambiguous standpoint. It is neither pro women nor anti men. However, it is worth having a quick glance if one wishes to watch a Dutch film which has been considered a cult classic for many years.

Reviewed by lawiay 8 / 10

thought provoking film

I just watched this film for a law class and wanted to briefly defend it, in light of the previously posted comment by another user.I think the comparison of feminist reaction to male dominance in this movie, with anti-Semitism of the Nazi era, is inappropriate and not logically founded. Anti-Semitism and Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany was an example of social/religious bigotry, intolerance, and violence perpetrated by the political majority against a political and religious minority. It was based on a history of escalating persecution spanning centuries. By contrast, this movie concerns the emergent hostile sentiments of a social/political minority group, to their perceived oppression by the social/political majority.The movie dates from the 1980's and perhaps both suffers and benefits from this fact -- it looks somewhat dated, but the social climate of that era is important to understanding the movie. Europe of the 1970s and 1980s, much like the US, was still very resistant to even the idea that sexism really existed or was a problem. The courts were actively fleshing out the parameters of sexual rights and protections -- legally carving out the nuances of sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and reproductive choice law.The film is basically an extended commentary, arguably controversial, on the repression of women in a male dominated society. In this regard, the message is possibly too strongly stated -- three women, having finally had enough of silently accepting sexism and male domination, suddenly snap and brutally murder a male sales clerk in cold blood. They feel no remorse, and no men in the movie can even begin to comprehend the very idea of sexism or its effect on women. However, to compare the feminist sentiments of the film to Nazi-ism, is not only unfair, but is an offensive and reactionary over-statement of disagreement with these same feminist sentiments.

A Question of Silence

1982 [DUTCH]

Drama

A Question of Silence

1982 [DUTCH]

Drama

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A movie for rational thinkers, only.

A Question of Silence: Dutch director Marleen Gorris shows that even silence can effectively convey mature ideas.

thought provoking film

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