Broker and Women Talking

In this podcast episode, HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano discuss Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda's "Broker." A road movie set in South Korea, this film concerns a baby that has been abandoned by its mother and found by two men who decide to sell the infant on the illegal adoption market. Although the film runs longer than it needs to, our critics did like it. Marie and Mike also talk about writer-director Sarah Polley's "Women Talking." The film's intriguing premise involves the women in an isolated religious community talking about how to respond to the criminally malicious behavior on the part of the men in the community. Because almost all of the men are now off in town either as prisoners or as free men arriving with bail money, nearly the entire film involves the women trying to decide whether to remain in the community and submit to patriarchal authority, remain there but fight against it, or flee. 

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