"I am fascinated by nuns; how in their cloaked mystery they contain multitudes. How they invite speculation and obstruct it. How they subvert the virgin-whore dichotomy by containing fragments of both. How they run the gambit from villain to hero, from oppressor to savior, from parody to praise. How they refuse the world in order to devote themselves to it.
Cinema thrives on such juicy contradictions. And lest we forget, it's a historical fact that a matriarchal religious community does not a haven make. We need not get our wimples in a knot about the gendered pulp of nunsploitation when history has already had a heyday undermining the sanctity of unflappable nunnish goodness.
And yet, moth to a flame, I am infatuated. I love a messy nun because I love a messy woman who dismantles expectations, and who radiates confounding possibility. Freedom, after all, is a messy thing. And who doesn't love a good mess?" - Meg Shields/Filmschoolrejects
