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Watching The Testaments as a person who lived it
Watching The Handmaid's Tale was rough, but it was still a movie that I watched from the outside. I'm less than one episode into The Testaments and it is a whole other experience for a woman and a cult survivor who was raised in it. I have lived my own version of this. I understand these girls in a way that you can't without having live it. I just keep thinking about my own teenage years. How controlled I was, the level of brainwashing that made it feel normal and even easy. The way I could step back into that world even now 2 decades later and I would know exactly how to speak the language. I am Agnes.
u/Head_Bad_965 — 14 days ago