Year: 2003
Duration: 01:19:45
Directed by: Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz
Actors: Mary Alice, Glenn Close, Eve Ensler, Hazelle Goodman
Language: English
Country: USA
Also known as: What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices from Inside a Women’s Maximum Security Prison
Description: The greatest thing I gained from seeing this was a glimpse of the women who live inside and around the crimes. While only a starting point, it’s the beginning of understanding that any of us is capable of criminal acts. But more than that, this film asks, “Then what??” As is said several times by one of the women prisoners, “life goes on.” *How* does life go on? How do you live with it 6 months down the road, 6 years, 15 years? How does your perception of life and self change as you fill the hours to pass one more day, then another?
A look at playwright Eve Ensler’s writing workshop inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women. Inmates at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women try to determine if redemption is really possible after committing a crime. Proctored by playwright Eve Ensler, the convicts (including two former members of the Weather Underground) perform a series of writing exercises and discussions that could lead to healing. The film culminates in a prison performance of the women’s writings by Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei and Rosie Perez. Very moving DVD, I highly recommend members watch this. It is an aspect of women seldom talked about. This documentary is deep.
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Ummm, read on a blog this is here due to a little misadventure Wip had when his friends Keith and Mick were in a little bar in *deleted* which required a bit of spare change from the Glimmer Twins, and this PSA from Wip. The un-cut directors version of this is known as Caged Women II: Let them have pens. The film of the actual indiscretion has yet to be posted here is the word, others say it is o site, just not identified as The Glimmer Twins lost weekend at Casa Wip, while others “in the know” say the actual events make Salo and Caligula seem like disney fare. Documentaries take all the fun out of WIP films, but, fun is relative, not incestuous, well, maybe it is, I’m lost. Well, hey, that’s just gotta be it, right? KUDOS Wip