Suffragette

2015 "Mothers. Daughters. Rebels."
6.9| 1h46m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 23 October 2015 Released
Producted By: Canal+
Country: United Kingdom
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Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

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Syl Meryl Streep played Emmeline Pankhurst in this film for a very short performance. The cast included Carey Mulligan as a suffragette in an unhappy marriage with a son. She is fighting for the right to vote. You would never think that there were rules to prevent women from voting in elections. The film tells the story of how the British suffragette movement and how they fought for equality. Meryl Streep does a very good job. The film cast is first rate with Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter were terrific onscreen. The entire cast was terrific but the writing could have been better. The film was set in 1912 and the art direction was first rate with the costumes and setting. Anne Marie Duff was great as Violet. Helena Bonham Carter played Edith. The film has some weaknesses in the storyline. The ending was satisfactory but left feeling incomplete overall.
sergelamarche A historical snapshot of history showing the practical slavery englishes submitted themselves to. Real slavery was just one notch worse it seems. Clothes and all the backdrops of past are well depicted. Cute film. Now vote, bitches! haha!
sddavis63 For some unfortunate reason, when we think of the great civil rights movements of the past we tend to overlook the fight for women's rights. I have to confess - with some embarrassment - that I'm not especially familiar with the history of the suffragette movement on either side of the Atlantic, so I embraced this movie as a learning opportunity, and from that perspective it does not disappointment. It is the true story of the suffragette movement in England in the early 20th century, told largely through the experience of Maud Watts, one of its leaders. Watts worked in a laundry, was a wife and mother and had little interest in the fight for women's votes. But she gets introduced to the movement by Edith Ellyn (played by Helena Bonham Carter) and becomes more and more involved in it - eventually losing almost everything that had given her life meaning in the process. Watts was very well portrayed by Carey Mulligan. The piece of the movement portrayed here is a somewhat more "activist" group. They plant mail box bombs, the cut telegraph lines, they even blow up Lloyd George's house - being as careful as possible to ensure that no one gets hurt by their actions. They're hunted by the police, they're subjected to ridicule by the public and abuse by both their husbands and the authorities. But they continue on, fighting for the cause. The authorities here are largely represented by Inspector Steed (Brendan Gleeson) - who recognizes the difficult task he faces. He has to get the situation under control, and yet he has to avoid creating martyrs - because a martyr would ensure the movement's ultimate success.It's not particularly a fast paced movie. There are snippets of excitement in the first hour or so, but it isn't a movie that grabs you and pulls you out of your seat. It offers some background into the movement and the women involved in it. it's at about the hour mark, though, that the movie picks up speed, when it becomes clear how much Maud has lost by being a part of the movement. The movie picks up its pace at that point, and it leads us up to the climax of the movie - the thing that Steed had feared above all else: the creation of a martyr, in a shocking fashion that - being unfamiliar with the history of the movement - I was not expecting, although from what I've read since seeing the movie, the true motives of Emily Davison - whether she actually planned to become a martyr or not - aren't really known. The point is that she did, and her martyrdom lent impetus to the movement that eventually resulted in women receiving the right to vote.It's a very different world we're introduced to in this movie, where women have few rights and are basically the property of their husbands. At the same time, in the light of the #metoo movement of recent months, this movie also seems to have a social relevance. It's generally well done, and offers a look at the fight for women's rights in England. (7/10)
pifkeyraoul I liked this movie. However, I think the characters needed fleshing out.Amy Madigan is a terrific actress but she needed more to work with, I believe. There were four main female characters plus Mrs. Pankhurst(Meryl Streep). It would have been interesting to see where Mrs. Pankhurst's radicalism began, as she is obviously an upper class lady. By the way, I liked Brendan Gleeson (Inspector Steed) as he started out a very hard, prejudiced character, and changed to actually being somewhat sympathetic to the women.In a movie, it would be hard to develop the female characters sufficiently.I think this would be a good mini-series so that the characters could be more closely explored.