The movie called "The Little Hours" I was kind of horrified by. Not by the sexual contexts but by the repression of these women at this time. So, you can see how crazy life could be then. Like the daughter of a wealthy man paying the nunnery to keep his daughter locked up so she cannot marry as she wishes. So, the abuse of women more than anything else as well as the abuse of poor men is well shown in this movie. So, I felt really upset by the repression of women and the bad treatment of poor young men in this movie. It basically showed how dysfunctional life was in general during the 1300s more than anything else and how difficult it was to physically and to psychologically survive those times as they were then.
The Little Hours(2017) is a movie based loosely upon the Decameron which was written in the Florentine dialect in Italy in the 1300s and is considered to be a classic of Italian literature sort of like Chaucer was in England.
The Little Hours(2017) can be seen on Netflix and I watched it last night when I couldn't sleep but found it both funny and very disturbing on multiple fronts because of the repression of that era specifically of women in General but also upon poor men.
So, in some ways it is a historic view into the past of Italy that one can seldom have.
My wife was also telling me because she studied this era in History in college that many women chose the life of a nun just so they wouldn't die in childbirth or be beaten or raped every day by their husbands back then. Also, she said that if you were a nun you were much less likely to starve to death than if you were married. Also, a husband could kill you as a women then and likely get away with it, especially if he were a nobleman or king. This is alluded to have happened in this movie.
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