Review of Suffragette (2015) by Lana M — 04 Nov 2015

Led by academy award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, also starring and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, this powerful drama tells the story about the many women willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century.

This should have been amazing but it lacked pace and momentum and consequently audiences are left feeling non-committal in their feelings towards this movie. Nevertheless, this story successful delivers the message it needs to. Streep plays Emily Pankhurst but takes a very much backseat role, this story mainly focusing on the story of Maud (played by Carey Mulligan) who is recruited to join the UK suffragette movement, a fight which leads to the loss of her husband and her child as her husband, shamed by her actions, pulls away and disowns her.

Inspired by true events we learn how the suffragette's were beaten and shamed by authoritys and society and see how their movement turned to violence in order to spread their message and see how these women risked and lost their homes, their husbands and their children in the plight for equality for women.

This film, although a bit slow at times, spreads a powerful message which even today still remains an issue to be fought for.