Dustin Lance Black, the series’ creator and main writer, sought Hansen Park out for the show because of her expertise with Mormon fundamentalism and feminism. Her job covered such things as mapping out the exact route of Dan Lafferty’s car chase, or finding exactShe’s heard thousands of stories from women through the years on her podcast. “We used some of those stories to help shape how we shot and framed certain things,” she said.
This shift of acknowledgment is new, she said, and traceable to social media attention to patriarchy over the past two years. Now, there’s an effort within church culture to shift away from that, butHansen Park said the defensiveness around discussing the issues with patriarchal order hasn’t changed, which is why so many people are unwilling to hear stories from women who connect with the plight of the Lafferty women.
Hansen Park also answered critics who argue that women are just angry: “Of course people are angry. You would be angry, too, if you married into an abusive family and the church didn’t help protect you in the way that it promised that it would.”Bev said she remembers making her plan to escape the “compound,” a 60-acre plot where her extended fundamentalist Mormon family lived in what she called “trailers.
It was a plan that took months of execution — despite its apparent simplicity. Bev knew she needed to be strategic. Watching the miniseries, Bev said, had the ring of familiarity. “Their mannerisms, some of the phrases they say, I can hear my [former] brothers-in-law saying the exact same things to me,” she said. People in the church warned Bev’s ex-husband she was a “spitfire.”, when Brenda meets her future husband’s family. Instead of helping the women, she helps the men load rocks they are moving from a neighbor’s property.
“We grew up in a family where we were expected to go to BYU, to stay in the church, to get married in the temple,” she said.
I think actors have a civic duty to give accurate depictions of the experiences of others. Watching a movie, play, or short film about the experience of others sticks with people. If the actor does a good enough job, people are transported into the experience through hierophony.
But let's be honest, the LDS never stopped being patriarchal. They just toned it down in some areas.
What is a woman?
A cult is a cult is a cult
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