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With the wordabuseI fear Ive already misrepresented Foxs complex ambitions.
She wants to have agency.
She tellsThe Talein an attempt to take control of it, to make it hers.
The grown Jenny reads it with a puzzled expression.
Jenny half-remembers the relationship but has consigned it to the more shadowed recesses of her mind.
And here Fox pulls off a visual coup.
The young Jenny we first meet (Jessica Sarah Flaum) is post-pubescent, plainly a teenager.
The most unusual aspect ofThe Taleis that the male abuser isnt the keenest focus of Foxs memories.
Fox is a Jew, which addsthataspect, momentous but unplumbed.
(Does it need to be plumbed?
Hard to say.)
Says Bill to Mrs. G, I told you she was a deep soul.
And so Bill gradually propels himself to the forefront of little Jennys consciousness.
You dont have to be a reactionary to understand how progressive social movements can be co-opted by psychopathic opportunists.
Their current incarnations are not so smug.
Or Fox chooses not to go there.
Parts ofThe Talehave a too-expository feel.
A detective comes and goes to little effect.
Jennys fiance of three years (Common) is shown from a distance, as a bystander.
But Fox does well by her protagonists both of them.
As its title suggests,The Talehas its meta aspects.
Yeah, I groaned, too.
