Sometimes I feel like I am the only one supporting important movies in my town. When I entered the theater to watch Suffragette, I was the only one. Only shortly before the movie started not even a dozen more people showed up. All women. This is a movie which should be seen by young people instead of all these car chasing and blow up movies. Not that there were no blow ups in this movie. The Suffragettes were quite violent and bombed mailboxes and houses. there was also plenty of violence against women and I would prefer that young people see this realistic violence instead of the video game-like violence, they consume in the blockbusters. This is a great movie, well acted, moving and with historical interest. I did not quite understand what Merryl Streep was doing in this movie beside providing a big American name, but the rest of the cast was well chosen. Not that Merryl was not great, she always is. The movie moves you to run to the next voting booth and cast your vote. It seems that the suffering from these ground-breaking women is not really valued by the women who came after them, if you look at voter participation. The end of the movie was not really the end win of the Suffragettes , that came only after WWI. But before the finale credits run, we see a list of when women (and sometimes all men) got their voting rights in different countries. It was fascinating.
Review of Suffragette
