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"Decent" men
Alex 2022-01-11 08:01:57
The starring role is Mulligan, and Aunt May will come out for a short while. The film structure is quite simple, I think the meaning is greater than the form. What is more impressive is that although there are some scenes of police beating protesters, there is not much direct violence against women by men in the film, and the means of controlling women are more humiliating: they strip off protesters’ clothes when they are in prison and use police cars to escort them. The hostess returned home to her husband, published photos in the newspaper, colleagues avoided the hostess like the plague, the husband drove his wife out of the house, prohibited her from visiting the children, and so on. The women in this film are beaten, bloody, crying, struggling, hunger strikes, and fighting for their lives. The counterparts are the well-dressed and strutting men, who are unhurried because of their absolute advantage in power, and they rarely even speak loudly. Roar. This contrast was finally pushed to the highest point by Emily jumping towards the horse. If the weak could awaken the world with blood, it turned out to be the best ending.
Extended Reading
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Emmeline Pankhurst: We do not want to be law breakers. We want to be law makers.
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Inspector Arthur Steed: The fear is, they won't break, Sir. If one of them dies, we'll have blood on our hands and they'll have their martyr.
Benedict Haughton: That must not happen, or Mrs Pankhurst will have won.