June, the heroine of the scarlet maidenPrepare your battle. Season 5 of the American series, scheduled for September 14 on the other side of the Atlantic, is revealed in a first trailer that promises an offensive between the character played by Elisabeth Moss and Serena, who had reduced her to slavery in the previous seasons. Images that necessarily resonate with the news, at a time when women’s rights are experiencing an unprecedented decline in the United States.
the scarlet maiden (The Handmaid’s Tale, in VO) is a dystopia that imagines a near future in which women, with few exceptions, have lost their reproductive capacities. The United States, converted into a religious and patriarchal dictatorship called “Gilead”, reduces fertile women to slavery. The latter, dressed in long red robes, are now enslaved by wealthy bourgeois couples who confiscate all their rights and repeatedly rape them in order to obtain heirs to them.
haunting parallel
This award-winning program created by Bruce Miller, inspired by the homonymous book by the Canadian Margaret Atwood, explores throughout the episodes how this totalitarian society has been taking hold little by little, taking away women’s rights, one after another. the other. And many commentators have drawn the parallel between this nightmarish intrigue and the US Supreme Court’s repeal of abortion rights last June, which now offers every state in the country the freedom to ban abortion.
“States are now free to act against women with repressive and surveillance measures as in the worst sequences of the series. The Handmaid’s TaleLiberation wrote. Margaret Atwood’s novel “had it all planned,” Marianne estimated.
Atwood’s Warnings
L’autrice avait elle-même pris la parole, peu de temps avant la décision de la Cour suprême, alors que la menace planait: “la maternity forced, c’est de l’esclavage”, avait-elle notamment écrit dans un édito for him guardian. Warren Littlefield, executive producer of the series, had also spoken in Term in June:
“We’ve said many times over the years that we’d love to be less relevant, but sadly the show is terribly relevant. Even more so today. I think we all wish it was some weird, dystopian concept that no one could believe.” .”
As the mobilization continues in the United States, the words of this trailer sound like a call not to give up. In particular, the phrase uttered by June: “You want to fight? Well, let’s fight.”
Source: BFM TV
