Tag: The Handmaid's Tale
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Under the Eye: “Fairytale”
Bowling for Gilead. So Canada, right? Supposed to be America’s surrogate? Land of the … somewhat free? Home of the … arguably brave? Does your average American citizen have the rights afforded them by their Constitution and Bill of Rights, and are those rights recognized by the Canadian government? The reason I ask is because…
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Under the Eye: “Dear Offred”
“It’s so hard to talk to people, isn’t it? That’s a keystone of “discourse” in 2022 America, let alone an indeterminate year in the world of Gilead. Funny how words … have to … be delivered … in a … slow … contemplative … fashion.”
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Under the Eye: “Border”
Why does everything have to take so long? Is it me nursing the impatience of old age? It’s one of my chief complaints when watching current television. Writers take too long in telling their stories, and directors and editors accommodate those wispy, meandering deficits by making everything look far more important than it actually is,…
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Under the Eye: “Ballet”
“Atrocities become minor anecdotes or isolated incidents in the cultural sieve, and it becomes easier and easier to forget that yes, even in 2022, a woman lives on borrowed time in backward cultures. She may be the most powerful voting block in the West, but she is valueless in places that are not ‘exceptional.'”
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Under the Eye: “Morning”
“The fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale begins with the deck stacked against it. Be prepared for more ridiculous soap opera stories, more psychotic Kubrickian gazes into nothingness, and more inappropriate needle drops.”
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Under the Eye: The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
I hadn’t seen The Handmaid’s Tale movie since the mid ’90s, so when it showed up on PBS, I recorded it as a possible review for my Vintage Cable Box series, or for this collection of essays. It’s been on the DVR list going on about a year, and I still had no interest in…
Misadventures in Blissville 