Suffragette in the Times

Monica 2022-03-26 09:01:10

I think Maud didn't care about women's suffrage or anything like that at first. However, everything in life forced her, from Vi's underage daughter being raped by her boss, and a brief conversation with her husband "What if we have a daughter?" "What should she live?" The reply was cold. A cold sentence "just like you." Later, the loss of the child made Maud collapse. Everything became Maud's courage to move forward, and everything made her realize that this had to be done, not even for herself, but for Vi's daughter, for the next generation.
This film does not portray a senior suffragette, but tells a "outsider" who realizes the importance of women's suffrage. Maude's awakening is the awakening of women all over the world. Everyone starts fighting, fighting for themselves and the ones they love!
Suffragette, remember another great revolution in human history, but few people mention it.

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Extended Reading
  • Marta 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    We living in modern times often forget: power and equality are not easy to obtain, they are exchanged for blood and sacrifice. Fiction and history blend naturally, the perspective is realistic, and the characters are believable, but none of them stand out. Think of the ugly things in human nature. Ben's character is also full of flesh and blood, but his beard is too interesting. .

  • Clay 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Dedicated to the light of wisdom nurtured by obsolete stupidity, to the fire of light awakened by the night of despair, to those warriors who embark on an unknown journey alone, and to those women who are tender, fragile and extremely tough. They conceive, they bear, they awaken, they grow in pain, blood and tears, they are reborn in battle and destruction. They have nothing, they have everything.

Suffragette quotes

  • Sonny Watts: I took you on, Maud. Thought I could straighten you out.

    Maud Watts: What if you don't have to?

    Sonny Watts: You're a mother, Maud. You are a wife. You're my wife, and that's all you're meant to be.

    Maud Watts: I'm not just that anymore.

  • Maud Watts: [voice over, letter to Inspector Steed] Dear Inspector Steed. I thought about your offer, and I have to say no. You see, I am a suffragette after all. You told me no one listens to girls like me. Well I can't have that anymore. All my life, I've been respectful, done what men told me. I know better now. I'm worth no more, no less than you. Mrs. Pankhurst said, "If it's right for men to fight for their freedom, then it's right for women to fight for theirs." If the law says I can't see my son, I will fight to change that law. We're both foot soldiers, in our own way. Both fighting for our cause. I won't betray mine. Will you betray yours? If you thought I would, you were wrong about me. Yours sincerely, Maud Watts.