All best-of lists are haunted by the stifled voices of great women filmmakers, including Elaine May, Julie Dash, and Claudia Weill.
Despite its anesthetic banality, the film offers a painful view of the grotesque inequities in Chinese society, the censorship and fear that weigh on its citizens, the government's unresponsiveness to the people's stifled voices, and the tight controls on what Westerners are allowed to see (such as a Potemkin village for residents displaced by the river's rising waters).
The stifled voices of victimized children and the self-serving silence of health professionals throughout the country who fail to take a public stand against the escalating drugging of our children.
Paige is high on her own long-stifled voice, whether or not her insights have a lasting effect on anything.
In 2017, the most important event in the world of movies was the revelation, in the Times and The New Yorker, of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, and the resulting liberation of the long-stifled voices of the women and men who had been abused by him or other powerful men in the movie business, and, for that matter, in other arts and industries, too.
"Because of no organization" was his stifled reply, his voice grazed by smoke and heartbreak.
Libya proclaimed itself the voice of stifled Arab masses yearning for a complete break with Israel.
The updating of the story is thin; some dramatizations, though short, are distracting, but the over-all impression, of a time of constant meetings and conversations that gave voice to stifled frustrations and united untapped energies, remains visionary and heroic.
Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.
