It's been a long time since I wrote a film review. I took advantage of the Easter holiday to review the suffragettes. The suffragette movement started the British feminist protest movement. The symbolic and historical significance of the film is more worthy of our understanding than the story expressed in the film. English called Suffragettes.
Suffrage refers to suffrage or the electoral system. At first, the news called these feminists fighting for suffrage suffragists. These feminists advocated peaceful struggle for suffrage, but peaceful methods failed, so among these feminists Split out a part of radical feminists, they think that actions are more useful than empty shouts (Deeds not words), they need to use limited violence to fight, if they are not radical enough, their voices will not be heard, so they borrowed the Russian hunger strike protests, and radical protest actions such as blowing up mailboxes, smashing glass, and especially rallies at the gate of No. 10 Downing Street in major cities such as London.
The turning point from peaceful to radical is that in 1866, the peaceful negotiation between these feminists who originally advocated peaceful struggle and British MPs failed. These women organized a petition, the main demand was to demand that women and men have the same political rights , and collected the signatures of more than 1,500 women who handed the petition to British pro-suffrage MPs Henry Fawcett and John Stuart Mill, who drafted an amendment to the Second Reform Act, It gave women the same political rights as men and was presented to Parliament in 1867. However, the amendment was rejected by a vote of 196 to 73.
The two groups of feminists have a common goal, namely to fight for the right to vote for women in the UK, vote for women, the right to vote is one of the most important rights of citizenship. In the previous class, the political symbolism of the right to vote is actually more important than the actual right. , which proves that this group is recognized by the state and political parties, and their votes can influence the future course of the country.
The Suffragettes protested in a variety of aggressive ways, but with little success, until the 20th minute event at the end of the movie, when Emily Davidson, at the world's most watched horse race, suddenly rushes out from the fence and falls. Under the horseshoe of George V, many media in the world have recorded this moment. The black and white images of that time are still preserved. Beside Emily, is the banner of vote for women. She is the first woman in the suffragette movement. A victim, at the cost of his life, made the media around the world pay attention to this feminist movement in the UK.
Five years after the horse racing incident, the British Parliament finally passed a motion to allow 30-year-old women to vote, and the demands of feminists were agreed. It took nearly half a century, from the protests of the suffragists in the late nineteenth century to the fact that in 1918 Parliament finally gave women the right to vote.
From the first time I saw it, and looking back several times, what impressed me most was that Maud asked Sonny if we had a daughter, what would she be called? Sonny answered Margaret, his mother's name. Maud asked again, what kind of life would she have? the same life as you. It was this answer that made Maud decide to join the feminist movement, and was imprisoned and fought again and again. If there is no one to fight, oppression and inequality will be passed down from generation to generation, and generations of girls will repeat the tragedy that their grandmother or mother once went through, working long hours in the laundry room day after day, getting burnt , was suffocated by poisonous gas and had a headache, was sexually harassed by the boss, received a meager salary, and had to hand it all over to her husband.
We are not born to be the vassals of others. After more than ten years of hard study and hard work, we want to let people know that as women, we can create the same value as men. We are mountains, not streams. , we can climb to the top of the peaks and look up to all beings. What men can do, women can do the same, or even better.
Feminists do not have to jump out to make men superior to women and become inferior to women, but start from the value of human existence. For hundreds of years, what these feminists have been fighting for are the rights of being human, the right to live, the right to choose, and the right to participate in politics. , the right to realize the value of life.
Recently, I was reviewing gender theory and the feminist movement because I took a class on gender theory. The patriarchal hegemony of the whole society is systematic, economic private ownership, male-dominated religion, social division of labor, and the inertia of thousands of years of history, this kind of inequality requires the youth and blood of several generations or a dozen generations of women. If you go to protest, the protest may fail, but if you don't protest, you may not even be able to change. If we are to abide by the rules of this society, first of all, the rules are worthy of respect.
My original intention of becoming a feminist is to hope that every girl can be born and grow up with joy and happiness. I hope that in the future society, if my daughter is born, she will not experience the pain of being suppressed by gender hegemony like me. .
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