Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00A chair, a table, a lamp, above on the white ceiling, a relief ornament in the shape of

00:11a wreath, and in the center of it, a blank space plastered over like the place in a vase

00:18where the eye has been taken out.

00:26She said, I never thought that I would be a popular writer. I only wanted to be a good one.

00:39She writes for her times, and she is of her times, but she writes for all times.

00:46There is an incredibly strong desire to meet Margaret Atwood. She's also fallen into this

00:54tragic but brilliant vein of connecting perfectly to some of the more alarming

01:00and disturbing political currents in the world, so she's like perpetually relevant.

01:05What we look back on nostalgically is democratic freedoms. They're under attack,

01:11not only from the right but also from the extreme left, so the best time to live in

01:17is the sweet spot in the middle when the pendulum hasn't swung too far either way.

01:30This is her shot at getting the message out there,

01:33and by God, she's getting that message out there. She is just remarkable.

01:38She will be part of the pantheon of the great writers of our time, and she will be read forever.