Fisherwoman

new film starring Olivia Colman.

And Olivia Colman plays a character known as Fisherwoman, an outcast in her local village.

And she essentially barters her goods amongst all the sneering, enduring locals who constantly tease her for things like smelling like fish and being a pretty sort of outcast character.

She decides to get back at the community by... employing the services of Peter Dinklage's character, who is a basket weaver, but he has the ability to sort of weave magic into his creations.

You are not your own person.

Which is done hilariously because, you know, the Fisherwoman, who is Olivia Colman's character, is... is the working person in the wicker relationship so then he becomes the fisher woman's husband so to say uh they they play a lot with like the gender roles and like who does what and for what we see it seems the women are doing the same jobs as their husbands in this town but getting none of the credit and none of the dick that they want either um I thoroughly enjoyed this.

I don't really know how to go deeper into it, and the only thing I really wanna highlight is, without going into spoilers, is there is a practical puppet in the third act that is so wonderful and so endearing, and I loved every bit of it, and congrats to the entire special effects team for making that look so good, because on paper, You could end up with, you know, the movie Annette.

Um, on that note, I am going to give this, um, fish and cheese, which is, uh, that's my cheese rating, which is apparently a food from the, the, the, the town of Gander as shown off in, uh, come from away the musical, because we got a fisher woman and she would probably eat fish and cheese.

She's kind of representing most of the oppressed wives that are trapped in this patriarchy.

Her and practically the entire rest of the village become more depraved the more that they see how affectionate and kind the wicker husband is to Coleman's Fisherwoman.

It's clear every woman in town wants to be treated the way that she's being treated.

There is a great, great scene of...

Alexander Skarsgård also, like, this has all the elements that should make it into a bigger film that I think it's just not going to resonate that much with audiences because I think not enough people know about it.

The film itself is about a woman who is, she's named Fisherwoman.

It takes place in Renaissance, you know, old England in the countryside.

Everyone, it's, you know, sort of a fantasy kind of world where everyone is named for their job.

It becomes a lot about gender roles and what is and is not socially acceptable.

It's sort of interesting that she does the work.

Fisherwoman does the work.

The wicker husband, by the way, not the wicker man.

But maybe the only way for them not to suffer is for them to create a man out of wicker.

And then, like, I think that for me, I agree to a point that, like, I kept having these questions about the Olivia Colman character, the fact that she does create this sentient being out of nothing who does not ask to be here like none of us asked to be here for the purposes of being her husband and the movie doesn't wrestle with those things but i do keep coming back to i was just entertained like i found this a fun slightly different way to examine all of the the tropes and the ideas around patriarchy and the way you know women are willing to settle and I think one of my favorite aspects of this is there is a scene where Wicker Husband and Fisherwoman are all like doing a dance with everyone else.

I guess it's the dance that everyone does in the village.

Felicitations.

I'm your resident Fisherwoman and this is my husband.

May your marriage be as full and affirming as ours.

But their dance is a little different.