"Are you suffragter?"
The background of the film's story takes place in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the twentieth century. We may have forgotten that women have the same right to vote as men for only a hundred years, or decades, or there are still many regions and countries where women do not have the right to vote. At the end of the movie, it is not seen how the heroine Maud won the initial victory, but she kept fighting after experiencing the sacrifice of her compatriots, which must be a long road to struggle. After the movie is over, a chronological list of countries where women have equal rights to choose is presented, the first being the UK in 1918, and the last being Arabia in 2015, the same year the movie was released.
From the perspective of an ordinary female worker, the film depicts how she became a suffragette. Decades of peaceful struggle did not make any progress, so violence began, smashing shop windows and blowing mailboxes. Maud also gradually became curious, went to listen to the rally, occasionally spoke on behalf of the union, was later arrested and imprisoned, was not understood by her husband, was despised by other neighbors (including other women), and was imprisoned again on hunger strike and forced to do so. Those in power in charge of the riots also knew how to deal with them, "Let their husbands deal with it."
Maud didn't think of herself as a suffragette at first, but she became more determined over the course of several events. Seeing 14-year-old female workers in factories being sexually harassed by their bosses, seeing the hypocrisy of those in power claiming to listen to women’s voices, seeing police violence against women in rallies, and even seeing their husbands know that being a man, a man with vested interests The holder of the power can legally determine the ownership of his own child, in order to blackmail her. The sheriff originally wanted to start with the seemingly weak and new Maud, and turn her into a traitor, but Maud's reply to the sheriff can be said to be the firmest statement as a suffragette.
"I'm still a suffragette after all. You said no one would listen to a woman like me. I can't take it anymore. I've spent my whole life trying to live by a man's instructions, and I think more clearly now. .I am worth as much as you, Mrs Pankhurst once said, if men are right to fight for freedom, so are women. If the law says I have no right to see my son, I will fight to change the law. We Both are warriors on our own path, and we both fight for our own cause. I wouldn't betray myself, would you? If you think I will, then you're wrong."
Maud's conversation with the sheriff in the prison is equally conflicted and is Maud's only emotional outburst.
- "Who gave you the right to watch women get beaten in a panic and stand by? You hypocrite."
"I stand by the law."
- "Law doesn't mean anything to me. It's made without my opinion. We break windows, we burn things because war is the only language men hear. Because you've hit us, betrayed Us. There's no other way."
"Then we can only stop you."
- "What are you doing? Lock us all up? We exist in every family, we make up half of the human race, and you can't stop us all."
In those days, women were considered to be the subsidiary property of their fathers, brothers, and husbands. They didn't have enough brains and sanity. They were hysterical, which denied them the right to vote. The opening narration is that men claim that "Once they are given the right to vote, women then demand to be elected to Congress, Cabinet members, and judges." Just the day before, I watched "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", the second largest in American history. A biographical film of a female justice. At the beginning of the biography, RGB himself claimed to be the goal of his career: "All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks" This film is about notorious RGB's various efforts for the cause of feminism in the 1970s, especially the In terms of law and ideas, there is a line about law-making in "The Suffragette", which is impressive. "Do you want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable."
From legal recognition to voting rights, equal pay for equal work, equal benefits, equal access to school, and more, of course there are still many inequalities, either implicit or explicit. RGB's granddaughter is at Harvard Law School, and it wasn't until the 2018 class that the law school's student sex ratio was balanced. In the year of RGB, there were only a handful of girls in law schools, and women after graduation were even more unlikely to be accepted by the legal industry. It can be said that many of the rights or powers that we now take for granted are unthinkable by our predecessors.
What about the male characters in the film Suffragette? There are those in power who are thinking about repression, and there are husbands who are silent and do not stop them. Of course, most of the voices made by men are ridicule, ridicule, contempt and insult. Although the film describes a hundred years of history, the mocking faces of those who have power without knowing or knowing it (males) are so familiar. They mock you as a pastoral feminist and deny the legitimacy of your demands. You demand equal rights, and they feel that you are going to oppress them in turn. how dare you?
On March 8th, Women's Day was supposed to commemorate and praise these fighters who fought for women's rights, but the March 7th Girls' Day was celebrated in China, and there were even all kinds of vulgar jokes and insulting banners hung in schools. Anyone who knows a little about women Can the history of struggle be laughed out loud?
"Are you suffragette?"
"Yes, I am."
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