A.O. Scott wrote a movie review of Suffragette, a new movie on the women’s right to vote movement in the United Kingdom. The movie is being marketed as a historical drama for viewers to reflect on how bad things used to be. The movie takes place in 1912, in the middle of the right to vote movement. In his review, Scott commends the movie for the topics, other than the right to vote this movie addresses. He says it addresses patriarchal power, political resistance and “the economic implications of the right to vote”.
After years of agitation the suffragettes have moved to more violent means to get what they want. The movie focuses around Muad Watts, played by Carey Mulligan. Maud along with her husband work in industrial laundry, who get into the suffragist movement by accident that changes her life. Although, I could not find his rating of the movie. Through his reading I believe he gives it a pretty good review and says that it’s worth seeing, saying “it’s the best kind of history lesson”. Rotten Tomatoes gives the movie a fresh 72%.
“What joins these narrative strands is the feminist insight that the subjugation of women extends from the highest reaches of government through the workplace and into the domestic sphere” -A.O. Scott