The Handmaid's Tale - Indoctrination of Handmaids Scenes

[@MusicalRomancegrl]

Every time I watch this scene, my heart breaks for the nun who begs “don’t make me break my vows” as she’s being forced onto the bus. There’s something about that actress’s performance in that split second that just... gets to me. Whoever that actress was, she did a great job with that line.

[@WhiffleWaffles]

I was about the say the same thing. That poor nun, and I think her fellow sisters were trying to stop them from taking her. And it's ironic, because they are told they are serving God

[@hoodietheproxy8575]

tic-tac-toe Ya...but they know that they are not. Because they are being forced.

[@3piper]

They might have been discouraging women from trying to find shelter in the nunneries. Religous groups do not tolerate any other faith that differs from their own version

[@chillout4642]

She said "you can't make me break my vows. " But yeah it was sad.

[@mariapple1214]

☺

[@lukasmiller486]

I like how you see the Handmaid’s introducing themselves in the bedroom. It illustrates their humanity. Each one had a name. Each one had a story.

[@johnheppenstall4904]

I've seen some stomach-churning horror flicks in my time, but this, this flips your mind inside out. True horror. The book was so tough to read, but you have to make your way through it.

[@JustBeingAwesome]

I cannot watch the handmaid's tale (the current version). Watched one episode and wanted to vomit.

[@daisydoll107]

The book is amazing.

[@johnheppenstall4904]

@@daisydoll107 It is amazing. Attwood is an amazing writer. But it's so difficult to read, never mind watch

[@AI-hx3fx]

For those wondering about hymn they're singing, it is a version of "Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow" or the Doxology. The original lyrics, prior to heavy editing to fit Gilead's theology, are: "Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." The hymn tune is called "Old 100th", and the usual texts set to it include "All People That on Earth Do Dwell" (Psalm 100), "From All That Dwell Below the Skies" (Psalm 117), and "O Come, Loud Anthems Let Us Sing" (Psalm 95), and various Catholic hymns.

[@abelromero8967]

Yes, this version is low-budget and ends up a little camp. But there are some interesting things they're doing. The banality of the lydias looking and sounding like any conservative 80s housewife, the equipment, the casual Christian nationalism and speaking in cliches. The brilliance of the novel is keeping elements of everyday life, and this version does that a little bit.

[@sarmajere2866]

These are some good points. I think this Gilead actually scares me more, maybe because of how close to normal life it looks.

[@protennis365]

There are a lot of socialist in this movie and tv series.

[@lordbertie7429]

​@protennis365 i know im a year late but this made me laugh. What about a Christian fundamentalist state screams socialist to you? It's basically Christian ISIS

[@art3misxp784]

@@lordbertie7429there’s no homelessness in Gilead, everyone has a house and everyone is forced to work. Also, unrelated to the economy in Gilead, but there’s also no freedom of speech or freedom of the press. If Gilead wasn’t religious it would be a Marxists dream.

[@EOC-Sa8]

​@@protennis365 yall gotta look up the word *socialist* and *social* in a dictionary before you use it just to show how uneducated you are to the world.

[@via-anghelmagahum2586]

The scene with the nun broke my heart! When ignorant people think this is what some Christians want they forget that Gilead was conceived by horrible people using “God” as an excuse to be horrible. They hated the REAL and KIND Christians too in the book.

[@lukasmiller486]

True. After all, Jesus said “Not everyone who says Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of Heaven but only he who does the will of my father who is in Heaven.” Overall, I have mixed feelings about THT. It’s makes for a fun what if story but it’s disheartening to see it becoming a feminist symbol nowadays and so many woke, progressivists (even those who call themselves Christians) who say this is mainstream Evangelicals vision of a better America. If you were born and raised with Baptists and Nazarenes like I was, you’d realize nothing could be further from the truth. A few random, nut job cults do not represent an entire denomination.

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

@@lukasmiller486 All I know is, a guy could rape me and I could be the one who got the longer sense because I got an abortion.

[@hannahpapernick-yudin2846]

It is just wrong when people say anything happens "because of religion". As if politics never cause genocide or war? WWI had little if anything to do with religion, and WWII targeted certain religions and cultures but wasn't waged by christian fanatics. I won't act like religion has never caused violence, but it is not always the root cause of corruption.

[@solomoon3083]

And where do you think the idea of “god” came from? Speak to your ancestors. And see the mother as she is.

[@fibonaccisequins4637]

@@hannahpapernick-yudin2846 Religion has been used as a tool to control people…Nazi Germany literally did the same thing. So did the USA. There’s a reason why so many 3rd world countries are full of religious fanatics. You brainwash then into believing that everything is being done for “the good of the children” even if that means mass murder. Yes Christianity is actually about loving and protecting one another, but let’s not act as if organized religion isn’t a poison. Religion is a beautiful thing and has saved people’s lives…but the brainwashing and indoctrination has destroyed lives.

[@Jhess101AnimeXOXO]

The singing makes the show more eerie, they should've​ added this singing in the hulu version

[@joejbaird]

Unfortunately, I don't think it would have fit the tone going from a dark shadowy environment to a group of girls singing a hymn.

[@walker89140]

Well, in a way they did. When you see Emily's time in the Colonies there is a brief moment where the unwomen are seen singing a hymn at the start of a new day. Felt like a harsh form of mood dissonance.

[@phosphirnotorious5714]

They couldn’t do that because then it would look too much like actual Christianity.

[@danielqmul]

I didn’t know that another version of the Handmaids tale was made prior to the recent one.

[@matthewcooper3535]

Movie 1990

[@r.c.whitaker296]

The new series is the tenth adaptation of the book.

[@Tstearns2012]

@@r.c.whitaker296 Really? There are 9 shows/movies before the one that's on-going now?

[@r.c.whitaker296]

@@Tstearns2012 There has been at least one film version, prior to this TV series.Also stage, radio, audiobook,ballet, and opera interpretations. There is a graphic novel, although I have not seen it.

[@roguelead72]

Yes with Robert Duval, Angie Dickenson and the late Natasha Richardson.

[@pstory6474]

So sad that Natasha Richardson is no longer providing us with her wonderful performances...and that she is no longer in this world for her family. I love her in Nell with her husband.

[@BeBooBoop]

Her child wandering alone looking for her broke my heart.

[@mnirwin5112]

In the book (and I think in this movie) her daughter is eventually found and adopted (sold to?) an "acceptable" couple.

[@SarahB1863]

For some reason the movie cuts back to that child like three or four times, giving the impression the kid was wandering around in the snow for days - which of course would never happen in a society that prized children like Gilead does. The child would have been grabbed when her parents were. It reminded me of the scenes in "Airplane!" where they kept cutting back to the guy in the cab waiting for his cabbie to return, unaware that the cabbie had hopped a plane and was long gone. At the end of the movie, the final shot is the guy still sitting in the cab, where he looks at his watch and says, "Well, I'll give him another 10 minutes - but that's it!"

[@91clarie]

Ann Dowd is a scarier Aunt Lydia though

[@samharper8293]

Definitely! Ann Dowd takes the character of Aunt Lydia to a new level..!!

[@lucindaarmour4685]

Victoria Tennant is a really terrible actor. She, from all accounts, is a smart creative person but none of that ever translates to the screen. Even when this film was released she got awful reviews. Ann Dowd is a remarkable character actor and brilliant in the role.

[@GerOffYeWeeBastard]

@@lucindaarmour4685 She was good in The Winds Of War.

[@cmariah80]

OMG yess she was the evil mother in Flowers in the Attic!!

[@skylarkfloating]

But this Aunt Lydia is more accurate to the book. She comes off as a wheedling woman that consistently pleads at the handmaids to swallow down the propaganda handed to them. I can see Ann Dowd’s Aunt Lydia as the one in the sequel, though.

[@rediiusodas3283]

oh my god this is so scary,, "why do you think god made you a woman?" That's terrible omg

[@seasonsdie9569]

I like pancakes she quote it so it's not her or his own words.

[@triciafurlow8392]

amen

[@carolhutchinson7763]

It seems it's actually "God's plan" that only a few of things in nature are used. Look at all the sperm and eggs that get wasted. And all the baby animals that never become adults. Even human beings used to die like flies before growing up.

[@grose2272]

You should try been an Irish women!LoL

[@BlackRose85789]

@@kevlow9494 oh bullshit, I'm Christian and refuse to become a mother.

[@mozambiquemorbid2441]

especially compared to the hulu adaptation, i always thought this incarnation of aunt lydia was too soft. but i do like the visual of her clucking at them, calling them “the lucky ones”, in front of the unwomen in front of the train

[@AmandaSuzanne10]

If you want another view of Lydia, I encourage you to read "The Testaments", which was Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. It was released during the pandemic, so a lot of people seem to have missed it.

[@francessweeney2308]

Moira was a member of the resistance and I believe her job was to penetrate the red centre to gain information as to the handmaid's training, how they're captured, treatment inside the red centre. Once she had found out what she needed to know, she escaped disguised as an 'Aunt'. We see Moira later in the film working in a club as a hostess where the men in government were known to go to unwind.

[@charlieh1427]

No she just ran away

[@hectorsilva1990]

Frances Sweeney

[@eladiaguzman309]

Charlie Fishes Marino. Zapete

[@Ellie-ke8rw]

Frances Sweeney Ii

[@JustJ.]

Frances Sweeney ~ In the book, they were roommates & best friends from University. There was also an implication that Moira was having an affair with June's mom.

[@feministwitch1402]

One thing I like about the hulu series in preference to this one, which isn't as useless as I thought, is that everyone isn't so stick thin and attractive. Offred is in her mid 30s in the book but natasha Richardson was 26 when she played this. Hollywood has progressed- that we can't deny.

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

It seems like in the book and this film, the idea was that the Handmaids had to be rather attractive, white women. One point is just how limiting this would be for Gilead. The Hulu series makes Gilead much less racist and the Handmaids are much more diverse partially because that's the only way Gilead would be able to survive. It also goes to the idea that rape and abuse can happen to anyone, not just very pretty and desirable women.

[@tenofivelips]

Oh please. Over weight people were not the norm when this movie came out.

[@emmabarron7614]

But then why are the commander and his wife so young and attractive when they clearly weren’t written that way

[@jaimesaul22]

@@emmabarron7614 one of the producers said that they made serena younger because they wanted to portray a close age gap between her and june, so they had more of a dynamic of june taking away the "wifely" duties (like getting pregnant and having a baby) serena should be actively doing but is forced to basically just sit and watch someone else do it; where if she was older, she would not be able to do these things anyway

[@veevee4224]

people were thinner in the past though, severe obesity was a lot more rare in the 90s whereas now it's sadly common

[@juliecastillo914]

why don't these influential men just marry the fertile women. Thereby eliminating all the trouble of the handmaidens?

[@victoriapowell6318]

Probs cause the rich and powerful guys don't want their daughters sent to clean up toxic waste.

[@sweetpotatocousin]

The handmaidens are considered morally trash but physically necessary as baby machines. Whereas Wives of high up commanders are considered morally upright but most seem to be barren. Also since Gilead was recently established, most of the influential men were already married when Gilead was founded. Their law only recognizes first marriages and do not allow divorce. This is also pretty much the same law that made Offred a Handmaid instead of an Econowife.

[@kidlitfanful]

Gilead came into power only a few years before the events if the movie. The Commanders were already married to infertile women (They didn't test the men, they may have been infertile, too, but will never know it.) and divorce is considered a sin.

[@kiara5475]

They don’t marry them because the handmaids need to serve multiple families. Once they’ve had the child and breastfed them till they are weened the handmaid is passed on to another family to give them a child...

[@3piper]

Handmaids are women who have broken the law and considered criminals.But they are redeemd from being sent to the colonies by becoming Handmaids.But they are not considered to be wife material

[@tearose1296]

Ok so this is basically breeding humans?? Thats sick

[@entspannter]

Tea Rose 1 Sad and necessary it seems...

[@victoriapowell6318]

From a different perspective you may not think so. Not if humans are not able to have babies and will die out. You might find it in yourself to think even a lesbian or a nun should be made to produce a child if she is one of the very, very few still able to.

[@3piper]

The book implied America got hit by some ecological or biological disaster that rendered almost everyone sterile.Any women that was capable of getting pregnant were recruited.

[@pittsburghpirate58]

Tea Rose America did this for 3 centuries remember slavery? 1600’s->1700’s->1800’s. America did this for 3 centuries in the name of god and Jesus as white southern baptists prayed for good healthy slave babies to make them wealthy!

[@3piper]

Even today some women have agreed to become surrogate moms.They should have offered incentives or priviledges to females instead of forcing them into it.But that is how the book is ,so they could not

[@elizabethsealey6570]

Had no idea this was a movie as well, love the book and the Hulu series too.

[@RadioBaby999]

This is the first part where the girls are well from the inside out, both physically and emotionally. But deep down, they are depressed and they all yearned freedom.

[@nw5390]

So not only has production value gone up, but acting performances have reached a new bar.

[@cellytron]

The fact that Corinne Foxworth went on to be Aunt Lydia is honestly so funny. It’s absolutely brilliant in so many ways, all of which were unintentional of course but which are still amazingly ironic. “I pretended my 4 kids didn’t exist and locked them in an attic for 3 years, so I could inherit my father’s fortune! Now I’m going to force a bunch of women to have kids against their will.”

[@skwervin1]

I read the book when it came out, and it shook me to the core. I am an Australian, and the likelihood of this coming to pass here is not high. I was 19 or 20 when I read it, and I swore to make sure my kids would never go through something like this. Over the last 15 or so years, I have watched the destruction and denigration of women in the USA. Once Roe v Wade happened, I fear it will only be a short step until Gilead appears in the USA.

[@nathanjustus6659]

All the court case said was, in the absence of a federal law, it goes to the states. The real traitors were the pro abortion legislators who never created a positive law.

[@jengiessman2413]

I watched this movie when it came out on lifetime in the 90s. This scene stuck with me. I have the book and read it. The Hulu series is on point. It's a dystopian society. Sadly it could it happen

[@Astro.babyyy]

Unfortunately it looks like it is…..

[@newyorker2581]

Everything in the book has happened already somewhere in the world at one time as Margaret Atwood has stated in interviews. She just has all of it happening in one story

[@forsaken22]

​​@@Astro.babyyy oh no we can't murder and massacre babies because of our bad decisions as easily as we could before my life is literally a handmade tale. 😂

[@myBquest]

Well, it does happen. Have you heard about that weird group of mormons that have their own little village and all? I couldn't stop thinking about it while reading the book.

[@91clarie]

@@myBquest it also happens in Islamic countries all over the world. Qatar, where the football World championship takes place this year, punishes homosexuality with prison or even death sentences. Adult women there are not allowed to work, study or travel abroad without the written permission of their legal MALE guardian. Women are also not allowed to get divorced. If a woman doesn't get pregnant after the wedding, her husband can reject her and send her back to her parents. She's then shunned and won't be able to remarry because she's not a virgin anymore and also considered infertile (even when actually the husband is infertile). Or take a look at Iran where it's basically the same and women are now fighting for their right to not have to cover up and have more freedom from their male guardians. Tell me how this isn't almost exactly like Gilead...

[@C_Tizzle]

I hate to even think this, let alone Say this: these ideas, brought into our minds in the late 80s, are a now fathomable thoughts/fears of us women living here...in 2022. I am fearful. As an American woman, my ideas of what "freedom" is...have drastically changed throughout my adulthood. I am 37. 20yearold 'me' would've never imagined 'this' having a chance at becoming our reality. It feels too 'possible', now, for me to rest well with this - as only a fictitious story. It's an idealization that is now seeping into our lives, and becoming too real for me to Fully understand. I. Am. Scared.

[@stevestevenson3252]

You're sacred.... You're an idiot worried about her freedom who lives in the country ranked15th for most freedoms in the world. The world, let alone America is not even remotely close to "handmaid". If you wonder why people think Americans are stupid, just look on the mirror!

[@klina7645]

If movie Aunt Lydia (who coincidentally looks more like the TV's version of Serena Joy) met the TV's Aunt Lydia....they'd be very suspicious 😐🤔 of each other. "I am Aunt Lydia!" "No, I am Aunt Lydia!"

[@carolinewhiteside3631]

This story hits hard in 2024.

[@bethgallagher8156]

Are you being FORCED to have sex?

[@larey9484]

Wow, I really need to check out this film now. Even this short clip shook me to my core.

[@uniquepurpose03]

It is definitely a movie worth watching; my father use have me and my sisters to watch this movie all the time; I've never understood why, but it did almost made me hate men.

[@systemshocker2875]

@@uniquepurpose03 did you watch the Hulu series?

[@uniquepurpose03]

@@systemshocker2875 not entirely, I've only seen different clips of it here on KZbin

[@uniquepurpose03]

@@systemshocker2875 but I like the original one better tho.

[@systemshocker2875]

@@uniquepurpose03 I would reccomend the hulu series because it's more faithful to the book and they are making it so that it ties to the testaments,the novel's sequel. But you are entitled to your opinion.

[@tessabrown7298]

Had no idea there was a movie made prior to the new TV series. I'll have to watch it

[@woah11ify]

tessa brown lmao here I was thinking this was like a flashback in the series (never watched the show). I was amazed with how 80s both the actresses looked and cinematography. Guess that explains that lol

[@DuckyBird101]

Before the this 1990 movie it was originally a book published in 1985 by Margaret Atwood

[@glynbrain1083]

This film is 100 times better than the more recent TV series.

[@bdmancartoon2024]

In Gilead 1990 the first thing taken from women was their hairspray.

[@Babeatrice]

Interesting.

[@johnIZaUWL]

"If masturbation is a crime I shoulda been put away years ago!"-Gilbert Godfreid 🤣🤣🤣

[@francesca9263]

John Erkman for men its no crime

[@scp--297]

Same!

[@Canuckchick32]

Lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@cmariah80]

Omg that is the evil mother from flowers in the Attic. She makes the new Aunt Lydia seem like mother Teresa.

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

I was looking to see if anyone recognized her as that crazy ass mom! I guess she got typecast.

[@LeahWalentosky]

Moria was played by Elizabeth McGorven (Cora Crawley)

[@carrieking6343]

It's McGovern.

[@michellehill1604]

What God are they talking about? the God I know doesn't condone evil

[@HashbrownMashup]

Lol read a history book.

[@BigMisterApple]

*God doesnt condone evil* Then.. why does it happen? Either God is cruel or indifferent, or possibly has a hell of a reason why anyone would allow humanity to suffer on this scale.

[@yeshello7084]

God doesn’t condone it but we humans are evil ourselves this is why we sin.

[@OO_sunflower_OO]

😅😅😅😅 Ok ok I do get where ur coming from tho but like still

[@sidharthcs2110]

God is the name of the excuse people find to do what ever they want. You know why? Because God isn't real and anyone can assign any trait to it and no one can question their choice

[@VideoGamesAndTheWorld]

Ann Dowd freaks the crap out of me as Aunt Lydia.

[@nooa69]

"You're doing God's work"...makes nuns break their vows to God.

[@bellona6356]

How are they breaking their vows when they are being raped? All the handmaids were forced, so she's not breaking her vow. So creepy that everyone is focusing on the nun, when catholism is nearly as bad.

[@gimmekromer1151]

​@@bellona6356nuns werent supposed to have sex and all thats the point

[@isanowl7898]

@@gimmekromer1151 rape isn’t sex, it’s sexual assault.

[@skwervin1]

​@bellona6356 Nuns are "married to God" and are to never have sex as that would be both betraying God and committing adultery, thus guaranteeing their ending up in hell when they die.

[@johansmallberries9874]

This movie was a staple of the lifetime network in the early 90s

[@faycarroll4176]

This is an amazing and thought provoking show! So great!

[@mlirwin8572]

Movies rarely do ... but as adaptations go, it's not too bad.

[@emilythompson1746]

We know that men can't help themselves. But we're different! Hahaha.

[@taetm8868]

That felt kinda weird knowing that fact that men masturbate more than women

[@Tstearns2012]

If the men can't control themselves then why the fuck are they in charge? Lmao

[@hadbetterdays8118]

@@Tstearns2012 my same question they contradict themselves so much

[@carolinelynch2823]

Men can't help themselves with what?????

[@lilly1389]

​@@carolinelynch2823masturbation

[@michaelmurphy5916]

The kind of fascism that is the handmaid's tale can never be permitted. It is better that all life should end before it does. Not even soil bacteria should be left.

[@45thnewsbrigade-tacticalop60]

You need to see the movie children of men if you think that is the way to go 😮

[@cherrytraveller5915]

Anyone realise that Moria is a very young Lady Cora from Downton Abbey

[@Frigga020]

America ain't far from this right now. Forcing woman to have kids. Forcing kids to have kids.

[@mellocheers9062]

*stopping people from killing babies

[@victoriarose5753]

I just realize the lady who plays aunt Lydia is the same lady who plays Corrine in flowers in the attic

[@jamestown8398]

0:27 - They are not, in fact, the lucky ones.

[@Smithjones12]

I prefer Ann dowd as Lydia

[@mcain2911]

D L smith I think this actress is doing a good job given how she was directed, but yeah, Ann Dowd plays the role how you’d expect.

[@Darthmessiah66]

didn't know there were an actual movie based on The Handmaid's tale, i only knew about the show as I've watched both seasons of on HBO.

[@dawggirl]

Casper Niebuhr The original source is the book by Margaret Atwood. Then came the 1990 movie, and then the series on Hulu.

[@michelleelmore5533]

You gotta look at the original movie and read the book. The new movie changed a lot of it.

[@systemshocker2875]

? You mean hulu?

[@calanthiarose]

The thing is that all the other classes have someone to take out their anger and frustrations upon. The Handmaid's don't.

[@SonyaFlynn]

They sorta take it out on each other in subtle ways,like telling on each other. It gives them a sick sort of feeling of being in charge for a brief moment

[@rickyolivarez]

@@SonyaFlynnso you mean like modern women? 😂

[@themadlibrarian2933]

It would have been wonderful to have Piper Laurie as one of the aunts.

[@mad4hats797]

She would have made a perfect aunt Lydia! She was so mean in Carrie

[@lukasmiller486]

@@mad4hats797 true but Victoria Tennant is a great actress as well.

[@RadioBaby999]

Even though they are well-tempered from the outside, they still have issues about themselves deep down.

[@lindaleelaw5277]

I'm 71, and THIS is what I saw and enough stayed with me.

[@kathrynrichards2343]

I watched this as a teenager and it stayed with me also! It's one of the reasons I kept my children very close to me. I was afraid they would be taken and given to new families. Look at our foster care system and think how east it is to remove a child from a family and give it to another family.... Its not so far off now.

[@3piper]

As much as I like the Aunt from the series ,I love this one.She is still young and very beautiful.If anyone else likes her she is Victoria Tennant. Watch "ALL of Me" with Steve Martin

[@feministwitch1402]

I'm grateful that Hollywood is now allowing women on screen that you don't think are attractive.....

[@3piper]

@@feministwitch1402 You misunderstood me. I truly like Ann Dowd and the character she plays so well. The Aunties on the series are all middle aged or older. What I meant was this Aunt was young and beautiful. The danger of being a Handmaid was high for her. She became an Auntie by using the system. She had the brains and authority to achieve a level of power.

[@feministwitch1402]

@@3piper oh. Sorry.

[@3piper]

@@feministwitch1402 That's okay .I have thought she was considered as a Handmaid because she still had the silver wristband they wore. But she worked the system

[@m_d1905]

The point of having the "Aunts" being young and pretty drove home the "you're the lucky ones" mantra. The younger prettier Aunts may have been jealous because they were infertile due to whatever disaster happened. Not sure though. A contrast of sorts. Like one of the Marthas saying that had she been just a bit young she could have been a handmaid.

[@kokuhakuqiun4215]

Did Aunt Lydia just call them quote-on-quote “sl*ts” and “slags” at the start of this clip (around 0:04)? Audio isn’t very clear in 1990s adaptation but I do know the handmaids were called quote-on-quote “sl*ts” and “wh*res” in the 2016-2017 Handmaid’s Tale adaptation (which has clearer audio). Quote frequently too. 2010s Handmaid’s Tale adaptation has much clearer audio so it’s hard to tell for someone’s who’s ears hadn’t really grown up watching movies in the 1990s (I was born between 2004 and 2006 for context).

[@juliaeisenberg9605]

If we don't reverse what congress has done to roe vs. wade, this could be our future.

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

I used to think it was silly to think like this. Now I think some people really think Gilead is a food model.

[@nancytestani1470]

I agree, America, you are going backwards..

[@Super165i]

There are other countries where women have no rights yet you're silent on that

[@thepolitea1545]

You’re so stupid … Black women were telling you this all along… When we all leave , (which we are) this is what you will be left with…. Have fun serving yourselves and watching gone with the wind 🤷🏿‍♀️

[@Mr_John_Herbert]

Like we are stripping rights from women, give me a break

[@Jorindeify]

I much prefer the new version!

[@davidhunternyc1]

I saw the series but I don't remember this scene??

[@luiscarlosmotasantos729]

This is the movie, from 90's.

[@cherrytraveller5915]

This is from the movies. Did you spot the woman who played Moria by the way? A very young and fresh faced Lady Cora from Downton Abbey.

[@goatmadej]

imagine being a transman sand being forced to be a handmaid. scratch that, imagine being a handmaid.

[@jayjayheinz8552]

anxious al I don’t even want to think about if I was put in that situation man

[@TastyGamingQc]

I think they would've just killed them as they would be seen has an abomination.

[@TheEmpressReborn]

@@TastyGamingQc I hate to say it, but you're right. A transgender would be seen as gender treachery.

[@OO_sunflower_OO]

Trans people can have ovaries now? Lol

[@OO_sunflower_OO]

The trans person would prolly be at jezebels if they’re hot

[@mellie4174]

I'm so shook right now. I should not have watched this before bed

[@chelsea7336]

Anyone ever read the book? After watching this, I plan to purchase the novel. I'm hoping it clears up some confusion haha wish me luck!

[@shikhasaha8166]

Did you read the book, finally? How did it go?And if you still haven't go and get a copy. It's amazing. I just finished the duology two days ago. It shook me to core. It'll definitely leave you feeling miserable and hopeful at the same time. The books teach you a great lesson: not to take the everyday things so taken for granted which we often do cause we do not possess the slightest idea of how much painful it is to be deprived of those neglected necessities(such as education and freedom of choice etc) for the rest of your lives.

[@carlytr23]

May Richardson Rest In Peace

[@jeezelaweeze1483]

Whenever I watch or read any scenes or passages from "The Handmaid's Tale," I think of women in the GOP--particularly evangelical, God-fearing, anti-choice women who submit and cater to mens' interests.

[@pippinhillhaviland1147]

Jeeze Laweeze I think the same too. They’re all religious nutcases that want the rest of us to be enslaved with their dogma!

[@JP2GiannaT]

... we're not actually that scary, I promise.

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@JP2GiannaTAren't you ?

[@claudeyaz]

I think having Lydia be younger or looking younger is much more terrifying, than using pretty appearance and use to make the girls feel at ease, before the betrayals of there everything

[@sylviacoffey5645]

Interesting they cast Victoria Tennant as one of the Aunts, who was the 'bad mom" from the 1987 Flowers in the Attic movie.........

[@pineappleflamingo738]

Im a Christian And this damn horrible and this really sexist. We woman tried to fight for our rights here. This not god except us to do And im a little freaked out😨

[@MitchellBPYao]

Is this some prison

[@elizabethmolina2891]

hollywood warns us about the future

[@frodolives26]

elizabeth molina Actually, Margaret Atwood did. It's based on her book.

[@esmith9005]

Future? Uhm, this is the way things are today in the Islamic world!

[@zurrayasmin1283]

E Smith islamic world? lol. this is more likely to happen to america under trump. lol.

[@egosumhomovespertilionem]

+Rebecca L: Which "reproductive rights" are being stripped away in the United States as we speak? Defunding Planned Parenthood and transferring those government funds to other providers of women's health services is NOT the same thing as stripping away "reproductive rights." If you don't want to have babies, you remain perfectly free to use any method of birth control of your own choosing, or to abort any pregnancy in the first two trimesters. No babies, no problem. Knock yourself out. Just don't expect the federal government to pay for it.

[@egosumhomovespertilionem]

". . . a woman is forced to plan a funeral for her fetus." Another 2016 campaign talking point that expands a grain of fact into an outright lie. In Indiana, medical service providers, including abortion clinics, are required to dispose of fetal remain by cremation or burial, and the parent(s) may chose the method of disposition IF they chose to be involved. They are not required to be involved or pay for it if cremation or medical burial is chosen. Here's the Snopes.com report on the subject: www.snopes.com/pence-law-forcing-fetus-funerals/

[@GabrielUngacta]

Just to let you guys know, Southern Baptist in this world are considered liberals compared to these people. Thats saying something.

[@rjtheripper931]

This scares the shit out of me. This is the devil's work. God would not want this. This is the total opposite of what God wanted for women. God sees women as a equal to Adam.

[@bethanybruce4602]

6:39 can someone explain to me what she did ? Like why they made her feet bleed? And what did they do to make them bleed?

[@Crazy-Cat-Lady-of-CA]

A whip or flogger or heavy wire. The whipped her feet because she was masterbating.

[@sharonspears-mandeville2369]

They beat/beaten her feet as punishment for doing something out of line,apparently..

[@veevee4224]

Late reply, but she was caught masturbating. She "abused herself", when her body is supposed to be a "temple of purity". "Self abuse" is an old euphemism for masturbation

[@georgewitts7832]

7 years late but she was probably caught...having fun let's say

[@extremesoutherngal]

I'm much more disturbed by the comments here than the actual movie. This fictional movie was released in 1990, based on a fictional book. But somehow the commenters here are convinced this will happen in real life. Seriously- turn off your computers and go take a walk in the real air and sun. You are losing reality.

[@themadlibrarian2933]

For what it's worth, Margaret Atwood has said in interviews that she didn't include anything in "The Handmaid's Tale" that hadn't already happened in some part of the world. I don't know how well publicized Romania's no birth control/no abortion l policy had been at the time that the book was written, but that is similar to some things that happen in the novel.

[@martinetiramani1480]

Brutal Honesty it happens, whether it be religious,agenda or government. kidnapped kids?

[@billybobkumar9231]

Uhhh, Brutal Honesty, you do realize that 54% of white women voted Trump into office, don't you? Of course this could happen, just as their rights to healthcare and anything else Orange#45 will think of will be taken away from them. And I can't believe that Pence won't do something to overturn the whole abortion thing. You girls asked for it...

[@ginallightbody]

I think you need to look at the world around you and actually see what is going on. Hiding your head in the sand does not mean that for some, these things are happening. Wake up.

[@georgiabrown8707]

Perhaps, a woman's "right" to sacrifice her baby on the altar of modern feminism in the name of "choice" is not really the biggest problem that women face today.

[@shadowdancer1358]

Are the names of the other versions of the Handmaidens Tale by the same name? Are they series or movies?

[@samtheenbygremlin7177]

There is this movie and there is a series on hulu currently airing

[@ilovesatan9661]

I never saw this, there was an earlier show of this?

[@Geiger373]

@@AndWhatIsThisNow Technically all the filming was done in 1989 and released in 1990 after all of the usual editing.

[@liorasitelman1856]

The hairstyles are so 80s! Truthfully the show is so much better

[@rosemaryrosewood3862]

That girl that was bleeding and I was so terrifying you can't unseat

[@DeepTimeUnit37]

Did they hang the nuns?

[@deborahcapuano1223]

in the book, while they don't show the nuns being herded into the bus, etc., as the movie did, the narrator makes a reference that "the older ones got shipped off to the Colonies, but the young fertile ones they try to convert, and when they do they're made into Handmaids..." (or something to that effect, I may not be quoting verbatim but that's the gist)

[@francesca9263]

RSShepard because they refuses to break their vow of chastity

[@justin2308]

See, this society actually goes AGAINST many denominations of Christianity.

[@spidermiss2426]

and... in the book, Offred also says about the nuns turned handmaids "none of us likes to draw them as a shopping partner." So not only do they have to go against their vows, literally NO ONE likes them.

[@markofsaltburn]

The next filmed version of The Handmaid’s Tale will be a documentary.

[@feministwitch1402]

Oh God oh God oh God

[@forsaken22]

🎉🎉🎉 good

[@kathyastrom1315]

A few years late, but your comment reminded me of an interview I read with Margaret Atwood shortly after the book was published. In it, she spoke of her worldwide book tour. When she was in Europe, women would ask her, “Do you really think this could happen?” When in the UK, they would ask, “Do you think this could happen here?” When in the US, they would ask, “When do you think this will happen here?”

[@PiratesAndCowboys]

How did they find out which nuns where fertile

[@balls7392]

Tbh, the world is probably going to become OVER-populated.

[@caramelfish1307]

We are not too many, the issue is that some of us are taking more than their fair share of our resources.

[@Whydtheyaddusernames]

Maria H We are too many.

[@Hypnos157]

@@Whydtheyaddusernames bullshit propaganda for brainwashed normies like you

[@JP2GiannaT]

We're actually facing a demographic winter in a lot of countries.

[@Gigi4LLE]

The lady that plays Aunt Lydia in this one also played the mother in one of the Flowers in the Attic movie. She’s creepy for sure

[@casandrabullock9497]

Holy crap that is the evil mother from the movie Flowers in the Attic!

[@glock645]

Guys, what show is that becaus it has some handmaid’s tale crossovers but it seems like an old version

[@tributeandmusicvideocenter1758]

This is the 1990 movie.

[@glock645]

Tribute and Music Video Center and it is called “the handmaids tale the movie”?

[@tributeandmusicvideocenter1758]

Nah. It's just called "The Handmaid's Tale".

[@ellenchavez2043]

Get ready. We'll be there shortly.

[@bloozism]

Exciting 😮

[@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004]

.Go to Canada, no one will miss you 😂😂

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004Those days are over

[@vaticancitybride7137]

An excellent book to film adaptation, at the Martha and Mary center.

[@carlyshuman5189]

Man I hope that our county doesn’t end up like this

[@kittys.2870]

the current administration thinks Religious Freedom is supposed to be for white homophobic christians ONLY!

[@BionicBear88]

It's 2022. Roe V Wade was just overturned. Many Republicans are now fighting to overturn same sex and interracial marrige, and to make birth control illegal. We're on our way to becoming Gilead.

[@katierowen3166]

This probably is a stupid question but what did the woman do whose feet were bleeding?

[@SlavSquatter-jh4kl]

My guess is that she masturbated or smoked/drank..mthey said she "abused" herself...so it seems like she did something that women weren't allowed to do with their bodies in Gilead

[@veevee4224]

She was caught masturbating. "Self abuse" is an old expression for masturbation

[@alishachase235]

Oh okie now this is one off veryy creepy and uncomfortable story.... I hope this never happens in the future to any of us females!! 🙁

[@Protantagonist]

I agree....come, let's make some babies

[@kellygoodman6167]

Alisha Chase with Trump or Pence it can be very likely.

[@Myla_grey]

kelly Goodman okay you sound very uneducated you understand that this was cuased by a illness right the reason they were made handmaid's is because they were the only girls who could bare children

[@Myla_grey]

kelly Goodman okay well I don't support Trump in any way shape or form this was caused by illness the slight chance we go to war with north Korea is something that we should be worried about not something that will never happen in this day and age

[@DuchessBean]

Im shocked this comment was written three months ago. And you have the gall to tell Kelly Goodman that she sounds uneducated???!!! Good grief. Gilead is coming. Be prepared. Vote.

[@Senacacrane]

I watch this scene and I always think what if this becomes America.

[@mlirwin8572]

It's actually quite creepy how true that statement is.

[@buffy185]

I don’t understand, is this not from the tv series? Because I dont see the actress in this bit

[@violetgreer2443]

This is from the 1990 movie

[@MrEarthquake213]

I got to see this show,love the imagery.

[@anaionescu8913]

I am really behind with this story, whether we talk about the book or the tv show. Is this a previous adaptation of the novel, different from the one they stream on hulu?

[@Geiger373]

The 80s movie was the first adaption. The Hulu series is the current.

[@kittydarkwine90]

didn't realize the show current show was a reboot.

[@laurahuynh8333]

The Handmaid’s Tale is based on a book by Margret Ackwood.

[@gimmekromer1151]

Its not a reboot

[@red-hh9mh]

at 2:15, what song are they singing?

[@jobjob5465]

The doxology but a wired version with cult lyrics

[@markmanwaring3823]

what a sick movie

[@blueturtle3623]

What are they singing? I cant make out the words. Is it english?

[@jayjayheinz8552]

If I ever had to become a handmaid (as a transgender man) I’d probably end up hung because I just couldn’t

[@AM-uh6ox]

Well you are part of the problem

[@gimmekromer1151]

​@@AM-uh6oxHow is he part of the problem?

[@JesusChrist-sm4bm]

Many Probably dont reconzie this. That Song that sung. Was not the orginal. It was chaged to refert to there new jobs

[@Sungodess888]

The series come out in 2017 on hulu.

[@IllinoisTrafficAttorney]

Desiree Hall Ann Dowd delivered a much more terrifying Aunt Lydia

[@rosemarycat5]

Which version i this?

[@russvoight1167]

Serving God and country at gunpoint

[@revparravager3184]

"You are going to be Handmais, you are going to serve God and your Country...." But the implicit "....Or Else" is absolutely terrifying for those poor women upon the snap of that vile collaborationist matron's fingers. She is the worst possible sort of Quisling there can be, where she is betraying not only her victims but herself all to be a part of the group in charge.

[@bensmith5262]

You think that's weird? The head of this whole thing, he had a wife before Gilead. She had a radio show, she was an author, a talk show host. Now she's just his wife. Legally under the system she helped set up, she can't even read a book anymore.