The filmmaker’s agenda seems quite clear in A Question of Silence. The point is to evoke empathy and remorse towards these women who commit a heinous and brutal crime and to portray that they are not crazy, but that their actions were actually quite reasonable. The three women who murdered the boutique store owner are Christine, the housewife catatonic; Anne, the nonsensical, talkative waitress; and Andrea, the cunning, intelligent secretary. They all three are very different in personality and lifestyle. That makes their motives and common agenda even more diffic

Christine does not speak at all, Anne speaks volumes of absolutely nothing, and Andrea speaks lies and sarcasm. None of them actually say anything helpful to Janine because they have not been able to by men and they know she would not understand that. Janine is forced to figure out their motives through her own experiences and through her common bond with them of being a woman. This bond is definitely not clear to Janine at the beginning. It takes her the whole film to understand that these women have been shoved aside by men their entire lives, and that she too, is constantly shoved aside by men because of the fact that they are all women. This film may not be advocating murder since the women are ultimately held responsible for their actions, but it certainly advocates the augmentation of women and shows disdain towards men, who are conveyed as domineering and overbearing.

Some memorable and stirring scenes are when the three murderers, the four witnesses, and the psychiatrist all burst out in laughter in the courtroom after a comment by the prosecutor that the crime could have been committed against a woman by men. This shows the absurdity and irrationality of men, and the notion that they cannot comprehend their own insolence or comprehend anyone’s motives but their own. Another provocative scene is when Andrea traces her hands on Jan

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