How Horror Film ‘She Will’ Reframes the Scotland Witch Trials With a Contemporary, Feminist Twist

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movement to pardon thousands of women who were accused of witchcraft in the 16th through 18th centuries, Colbert was preoccupied by the “constant necessity of not taking the past as a given, but remembering this is a story that we keep having to retell.”“Generally [historical moments are] told in such a way, because the person in power is determining the narrative that we follow,” Colbert told TheWrap. “If we don’t redefine things as we evolve as humans, and as we grow, then there’s no hope for the future.”In the film, Veronica undergoes a similar reclamation process as she confronts her past and seeks the truth of a trauma that left her broken — an assault perpetrated by a director when she acted in a movie as a young girl.

When Veronica learns that the same director — who is now lauded as a filmmaker and awaiting his knighthood — has plans to recreate the film they worked on together and is currently casting young girls, she is at “end of the road of that trauma,” according to Krige.

Instead of revenge, Veronica wants the truth. “We have to revisit the stereotypes, that somehow it was Veronica’s fault, what happened,” Krige said. “And it wasn’t.

She was a child. But she has completely taken on board that somehow it was her fault.”In this vulnerable state, Veronica forms a bond with Desi, giving the motherless daughter a mother and the daughterless mother a daughter.