Handmaid's Tale, The: Season 1 (BD) [Blu-ray]

It's kind of depressing at times and hard to watch, but it also has uplifting moments.

I found this story had me all but praying for Kate Moss. episode by episode. I replayed some parts as I missed some of the inaudible whispers..irritating..but "probably" not critical.Once I got up to speed on the foundation and who was who or what..I watched more episodes like any binge..only a disc is my limit without a break.NOW I FINISHED THIS VERY SHORT SEASON ONE..I don't get it..There are teasers on the last episode (or 2 maybe).I have my fears for all the women..some more than others.. Butthe whole story is now without anything that has any signs of closure..Good Bad or Ugly.Its moronic to stop..after an audience awaits..and 4.5 stars, Katw Moss won the Emmy last year.. After all that was insane in the premise..and yet complacency in the USA majority..no matter how abusively our gov't gets better 250,000 or is it 500,000 grand a year - pension..plus, free best-of- the- best insurance. Pain treatment that's now criminalized for our blown-apart soldiers, and all who live with untreatable disease, deformity, or the hundreds of millions with downhill health conditions, now inflamed by botched procedures.. We /are/The People that work for our comforts. But we dont get help for pain. The Feds are complicit with Pharmaceutials..to push drugs that advertise "Cancer..has ¿¿happened¬¬ ?? When did anyone FEEL ok to trade cancer to treat pain that already ruined any quality..of life?The pain meds are not present in Overdose victims. But somehow the media and the Feds don't want to review Autopsies..even if non natural deaths demand it.We are not far from being nudged to choose death..for relief from the worst pain on earth..what most Americans don't want to think about. but when its their kid, or sister, or parent..they become angry and are too late to speak out and speak up. Because those we love deeply..drain us like a flood water pipe going downhill into the ocean.We just have our own priorities..which include bigger and better THINGS. because we feel we gave to keep up with others we feel we must blend in as well off. Our health is being played with. Our comfort in old age, or current inherited conditions..are not addressed for comfort when no doctor has any viable treatment.OK.. I lost any interest. want proof? look up the chronic pain groups and check them out. Or..search your health problem..yes young people do abuse Rx drugs. But that is rare. every pill prescribed and purchased is now reported to the Feds. Young people buy street drugs..recently renamed after-market after the last overdose. Even her source said he actually explained "all the Freebasing (??) was going ok..so he left her alone. And she was found by help..in her palace..Who freebases Rx's.? an addict crushes and snorts for immediate, but fully shortened effects. So 10-20 pills freebases is fun..not reasonable pain treatment.The truth is that pain patients can't feel any euphoria due to the complexity of the worst pain. it's never fully gone. Because prolonged use causes tolerance. Patients respect the allowance that allows minimal help. it saved lives every day.Drug addicts can't ask for another monthly Rx the day after they party with a pal or the illegal drug dealer..on a full month's supply..in one night. The addicts never stop increasing intake, and never stop searching for bigger and much more quantity..but its unknown Chinese and Vietnamese fentanyl..made in straw huts with no safety standards or testing the strength of each garbage can batch.Suicides win ..and our sister, dad, grandma..can't go on. they tryANYTHING prescribed. But when pain is not reduced and all bizarre cures and remedies and physicaltherapy fails.pain now causes suicides not half as compassionate as what we arrange for our pets.But..again..no one thinks: Anothing this bad would never happen in MY great nation..USA..And other countries are copying this insanely cruel criminalization of pain patient that used to get pain relief from their doctors under Federal monitoring for 25+ years.

Sin desperdicio cada uno de sus capítulos, cada una de sus temporadas.

I had read Atwood's bleak novel when it came out in 1985 (I was an young undergraduate, then). We were still optimistic enough to see that we were making progress in human issues, women's issues, labor issues. This feminist "1984" looked like a glance back at Puritan times with the Nazi Lebensborn and a few zillion other cultural references thrown in. Atwood likes her puns so there's lots satire in the language.This current film series gruesomely depicts that we've descended to the kind of atavistic impulses that are always at the edge of a civilized society.Now, 32 yrs later, the U.S., plus many other countries are closer to this dystopia than ever--and have moved there since the late 70s after the Iranian Revolution. Travel to these countries with "traditional" values for women and you will step right into the Handmaid's Tale. Go to a rural county in the U.S. right now and try to get ANY kind of health care, especially for women's reproductive issues (including good pre-natal care), and you will step right into the HT. And so much of the focus, as has it been since Aristotle, since Augustine, in HT is on women's bodies. The internet brings us horrible, violent images of women via porn streaming 24/7 (as does many a mainstream Hollywood film with its blithely graphic depictions of brutality to women), and the empowering of right-wing movements. Members of Congress want to deny women the right to birth control products via not covering them via their insurances (while male ED drugs are easily obtained and covered by insurance), abortion providers in 50 states have been greatly reduced due to political and legal pressures (with illegal abortions and infanticide on a dramatic rise, along with maternal and infant mortality rates IN THE U.S. IN 2017!--and Congress will be next going after the morning-after pills. The. U.S. President, with his grabbing of female genitalia, international money schemes, is poised to wreak mass destruction via nuclear weapons (his "rain of fire and fury" in this kind of war. A big difference is we have 8 billion people on the planet and still need to figure how to feed, clothe, educate, and provide healthcare and a decent standard of living for a high percentage of them. And every week in the U.S. another mass shooting is reported.The series updates and rounds out the characters; particularly giving a bit more info on the regime that takes over, struggling with its "perfect" vision of the U.S. Don't miss the scene with the trade delegations.It's pretty tough to watch for most us--we will see Offred and the other women's paths in their own--from a somewhat freer world where women could hold jobs, enjoy themselves, make choices, and continue to work for a better tomorrow--to being devalued at every turn in the media--where it takes women years to come out against a Weinstein and where Betsy DeVos (she would be a perfect Aunt or wife, here) denies female college students the right to defending against assault.

Zur DVD selbst; wirkt extrem unterbelichtet.Vielleicht gewollt, aber über Stunden hinweg auf ein so dunkles Bild zu starren, auf dem man kaum etwas erkennt (die Hälfte der Handlung spielt nachts, aber auch einige "Tag"-Einstellungen sind so dunkel) ermüdet ungemein.Ansonsten kann ich die vielen positiven Rezensionen und den Medienhype um dieses Machwerk nicht nachvollziehen.Die Handlung ist so derart an den Haaren herbeigezogen (genauer gesagt kompletter Schwachsinn), daß ich keine Lust habe zu wissen, wie es weitergeht.Die Gewaltdarstellungen sind extrem brutal und ekelhaft. Absolut unverständlich, warum sowas FSK 12 hat.Man könnte nun natürlich argumentieren, daß gewisse Elemente- ein "Gottesstaat", in dem Frauen rechtlose Sklavinnen sind, die geschlagen und unterdrückt werden, Händeabhacken und Augen ausstechen für Bagatelldelikte, Todesstrafe für Andersdenkende und Homosexuelle- durchaus realen Bezug haben.Das kann man aber besser machen, und es war wohl weder die Intention des Films, noch der Buchvorlage.Der Film geht dann noch weiter als das Buch.Merkt euch, Frauen: stricken= böse und regressiv, kiffen und auf Tinder "daten"= gut und toll.Persönlich ziehe ich koreanische Staatspropaganda vor.Die ist unterhaltsam, in einem optimistischen, aufbauenden Ton gehalten, und die Darstellerinnen sehen gut aus.All das kann man von diesem westlichen Machwerk nicht behaupten.

Ich hatte die Vorlage von Margaret Atwood nicht gelesen, allerdings häufiger davon gehört. Die Serie entwirft sehr stimmig und mit zahlreichen zeitgenössischen Ankerpunkten ein düsteres Bild vom amerikanischen Gottesstaat (quasi das "christliche" Gegenstück zum IS-Kalifat), der hier in seinem Detailreichtum und seinem ideologischen Überbau absolut glaubwürdig erscheint.Dabei konzentrieren sich die Macher nicht auf die Action/Thriller-Momente sondern eher auf die Beziehungen zwischen den Figuren, ihr psychologisches Profil und ihre Emotionen unter der extreme Härte der Situation. Gut fand ich, dass die Geschichte sofort startet und erst in Rückblicken das "Kippen" der Demokratie in die Totaldiktatur gezeigt wird.Die Serie ist gut besetzt und optisch auf Kinoniveau inszeniert. Die Bildsprache ist oft einfach aber wirkungsvoll. Definitiv KEINE Feelgood-Unterhaltungsserie und sehr ernst in der gesamten Thematik. Bin sehr gespannt wie es weitergeht.

Sensational! A very dark and disturbing drama which, worryingly, has a lot of the feel of the current political climate! Elisabeth Moss is absolutely brilliant in the role... it's a shame this didn't get a UK BR release, but this one works just as well.

After 1 hour I have yet to decipher a word. It mutters along like secretive teenagers leaving the viewer confused. The general plot is fine but what the conversations are about is a mystery. It may be easier for Americans to understand but I have my doubts. As a comparison Wolf Hall is clearly defined, The Bridge is Nordic with English subtitles and still you can follow it. This needs a translator into English

Neugierig geworden durch den Trailer habe ich mir diese DVDs bestellt.Diese Serie zeigt eine dystopische Zukunft, nachdem atomare Katastrophen, Umweltzerstörung und Geschlechtskrankheiten zu weitestgehender Unfruchtbarkeit geführt haben. In dieser Gesellschaft bildet sich der totalitäre, christlich-fundamentalistische Staat Gilead heraus. Die Gesellschaft wird von machtversessenen Führern in einem neuen, militarisierten, hierarchischen Regime des Fanatismus und in neu geschaffenen sozialen Klassen organisiert. Die Bürger werden ständig überwacht und Frauen brutal unterjocht. Die letzten fruchtbaren Frauen Eigentum bestimmter Männer, zu der Führungsebene gehören. Zum Zeichen dessen verlieren diese Frauen, wenn sie in den „Besitz“ eines Mannes übergehen, ihren Vor- und Nachnamen und müssen einen neuen Einzelnamen annehmen, der sich aus der Vorsilbe „Des-“ (im englischsprachigen Original „Of-“) und der Nachsilbe bestehend aus dem Vornamen des Mannes, dem sie „gehören“ zusammensetzt, zum Beispiel: Desfred, Desglen oder Deswarren. Wechseln die Frauen (zum Beispiel nach dem Tod des Mannes) den Besitzer, so müssen sie den Namen des neuen Mannes annehmen, wie zum Beispiel Desglen, die zu Dessteven wird.Es ist erschreckend, dass trotz des fiktiven Hintergrundes unter bestimmten Umständen zur Realität werden könnte. Vielleicht auch nicht in diesem Ausmaß, aber es stimmt jedenfalls sehr nachdenklich....