Suffragette
Dreaming of the right to vote, working-class Maud eagerly joins the early feminist movement. But when the peaceful protests of the suffragettes accomplish nothing, they're driven to more radical methods of effecting change.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Movie #1094 ........................."Suffragettes"
Movie #1094 "Suffragettes" is an excellent film. I have seen others on the subject, one in particular "The Iron Jawed Angels" with Hillary Swank and Angelica Huston, but this one focuses on one particular woman who isn't gung-ho from the start, but it shows how she gets brought into the cause by others, and by the situation in her place of work and at home. The film pulls at our heartstrings a couple of times; there is an uncomfortable force feeding scene of a prisoner in another scene; overall, there's a good picture of what it was like to be living in 1912 in London --- a time period of huge inequality for women and their fight to make things more even. Yep, there's a lot of male bashing, but there are some of the husbands who support their wives in the fight. I would rate this 4.5 because I wanted a bit more info in certain places, and maybe a little more lightness in some of the scenes? I also wanted to see an ending to the Gleeson character who is a cop who stalks Carey Mulligan's character. Technically, the film was well done, esp. the highpoint ---- I got pulled into the situation from the get go, and I was constantly questioning how far I would go for my principles. These women were surely brave and deserved to have a movie studied their "deeds" which went way beyond their words (a line from the film)
2015 Rated PG-13
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