The variety of women in the movie is not simple.
The first is the heroine Rita, which goes without saying. Two of her remarks are still fresh in my memory. One is her argument with her husband in the second half of the movie, she rebuts him, don't feel like you're a saint by doing something your husband should do, that's just how it should be; the other is at a national union meeting On the above, Rita righteously said that fighting for equality between men and women is a just war.
In these words, I felt a power that has nothing to do with men and women, but only a belief in justice, equality and the good will and determination to strive for it. This belief and determination gives Rita and the women workers she leads to persevere The courage to go down, although in the process, they will inevitably encounter all kinds of difficulties and temptations.
The film shows this through two of Rita's other colleagues.
A man who has been in the factory for a long time and has senior qualifications, was a representative of the female workers before Rita. At the beginning of the film, the female workers are filmed working in the factory, and she is the only one who is late because she is busy caring for her lover, a traumatized military veteran and taking care of the house. She is not good at words, but she fully supports Rita's strike movement. In this trend, his lover committed suicide, which undoubtedly brought a heavy blow to her, and once made her on the verge of collapse and attempted to retreat.
(The movie doesn't tell much about the suicide of the old soldier, and I guess he may have suffered some kind of psychological trauma after the war - this can be seen from the fact that he always has nightmares and usually seems to be melancholy and unhappy- and The unemployment and idleness caused by the strike wave made him intolerable, so he decided to end it himself.)
Another female worker is Sandra, who has a beautiful desire to be a star and a model. She has popular short hair and a miniskirt. She is one of the women who can best reflect the British fashion trend of the 1960s in the entire film. What she faces in this strike movement is a test of temptation. The high-level officials sent by the head office have many tricks and tricks. He lured Sandra and promised to use her as a model to shoot a set of car print advertisements. The price was to ask her to return to the factory to work. Facing the temptation of her dream, Sandra was moved. But in the end, she did not betray her sisters. It seems that in her heart, friendship and loyalty are still higher than others, so she wrote the words "Equal Pay" in color on her stomach, and then asked the photographer, "How does this look look?" Full of banter.
Compared with these ordinary female workers with little education, the beautiful wife of the head of the Dagenham Automobile Factory has higher education and quality. She does not have the vigorous vitality of these people at the bottom, and her resistance to the entire social system is farthest. She got to the point of expelling the unscrupulous teacher who physically punished the students in the form of a joint letter, but she still supported Rita's movement with her own strength. At the end of the film, she also lends Rita a Pyba dress so that she can wear it for a respectable audience with the Minister of State for Industry.
Speaking of the Minister of Industry, he may be the most hilarious actor in the entire movie. In the face of two useless and useless underlings, her sarcasm, sarcasm, rants and rants are often unbearable. Known as the "Iron Lady", she also has unusual restraint in political negotiations. At the end of the film, she faced both the coercion of Ford's top management and the aggressive double-sided pressure of female worker representative Rita. , she dealt with it calmly and without losing her demeanor, showing her superb political literacy and character.
In a nutshell, this is a typical British light comedy. It is light but steady. It allowed me to appreciate the grace and charm of a woman from beginning to end. And it's not just female audiences.
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