A woman finds out that her husband is having an affair with a shopgirl and files for divorce. Her gossiping female friends are going through problems of their own.
In Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths, we read the following exchange:
_"In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?"
I thought a moment and replied, "The word chess."_
Now, not every work of fiction qualifies as an enigma, and for a simple reason: many are simply too straightforward in their intentions. But I think the reasoning of that character from Borges still applies in those cases. Take The Women, for example. By design, there is no male character in it. And yet, men are in the center of every deed and utterance displayed in it. This original concept is the film's strength, above its datedness (which is somewhat debatable, since it has been recently remade, I do not know how faithfully), and its classist (the villain is the proletarian) and sexist (the "good" wife's victory in the end means her taking her husband back) morals.
Rating: 57
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