从60周年特辑的第一集开始，就是满屏的政治正确。Rose是transgener，UNIT的科学家是残疾人（从Years and Years里来的），15是黑人（第一个黑人Doctor）。不能一棍子打死政治正确就是谄媚观众，相反我倒更相信这个RTD一贯以来的包容性的世界观，只是现在有更自由的平台他可以施展出来了。
Your honour, I am here in a unique position. Usually I stand at the bar, but now I am in this courtroom as a witness, a complainant, a victim. As a barrister, I have questioned women in sexual assault cases on the assumption that evidence can be delivered in a clean, logical package, and now I have seen from my own attempts here that it cannot be. In all of my professional life, I have participated in a system that has done this to women, and now I know it is not right. It is not reasonable, because now I know, from my own life, both as a woman and a lawyer, that the lived experience of sexual assault, it is not remembered in a neat, consistent, scientific parcel. And it’s because of that, the law often finds evidence “unbelievable”. So, I understand a witness can be mistaken in their evidence. I have suggested it time and time again. But this is not a car accident, or a home invasion. This is rape. It’s a crime against the person and now I know. You know, when a woman says “no”, when her actions say “no”, it is nor a subtle, unreadable thing at all. Yet before this, I too, I would suggest that she was mistaken. But when a woman has been violated, it is a corrosive wound. It is one that starts with terror and pain deep into the body. It then overtakes the mind, the soul. Yet before this, I too, I would suggest that “she was confused”. I mean, the message is, if we do not deliver our evidence neatly in a clear linear story, with consistency in recall, then we are lying. Yet before this, I would point out inconsistencies as proof of doubt. I would tell the jury they couldn’t possibly be sure. As a lawyer I know, I know, the law, it cannot jettison consistency entirely, but in sexual assault cases, can we keep using it as the litmus test of credibility? Because, as a victim, let me tell you the rape and the perpetrator, they are vividly recalled. The peripheral details, not so clearly. If a woman is rattled by having to relive the nightmare in court, if a woman’s experience of rape is not as the court likes it to be, the we conclude that she is prone to exaggeration and it’s because of this she is so often disbelieved.
So here in court, I want to call it out. The law of sexual assault, it spins on the wrong axis. A woman’s experience of sexual assault, it does not fit in the male-defined system of truth. So it cannot be truth, and therefore, there cannot be justice. The law has been shaped by generations and generations of men. There was a time, not so long ago, when courts like this did not see non-consensual sex in marriages as rape, did not see that battered women, they fight back in a manner distinct from the way that men fight. Yet once we see, I mean, we cannot unsee, can we? Now I see from my own experience that we have got it all wrong when it comes to sexual assault. We don’t interrogate the law’s own assumptions, instead we persist on interrogating the victims. The law is an organic thing. It is defined by us. It is constructed by us, in light of our experiences. All of ours, so there are no excuses any more. It must change because the truth is that one in three women are sexually assaulted and their voices, there need to be heard, they need to be believed in order for justice to be done.
Tag: National Theatre Live, Suzie Miller, Jodie Comer,
The Beaux’ Stratagem 2023.10.27
打打闹闹笑笑唱唱轻轻松松。
Tag: National Theatre Live, George Farquhar, Susannah Fielding, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Samuel Barnett, Geoffrey Streatfeild,
Jim O’Connor很正能量、有野心，愿意交朋友、给Laura建议。这样的人感觉不是一个世界的，不知道该觉得他很inspiring还是manexplaining。说那么多，结果Laura理解她的人生意义就是玻璃动物园，Jim惊呆了哑口无言。妈妈实在让人受不了，无法呼吸，但又特别可怜。感觉两个孩子都已经接受了，但是妈妈是最受不了的，她最要强、最要孩子们好。最后的结局是儿子的离开。
Tag: Tennessee Williams, Ivo van Hove, l’Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Isabelle Huppert, Justine Bachelet, Cyril Guei, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, ITA Live,
It isn’t only that he died, or how he died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.
Tag: Hanya Yanagihara, Ivo van Hove, Ramsey Nasir, ITA Live,
