Suffragette (2015)
Director:
Sarah Gavron
Tagline:
« Mothers. Daughters. Rebels. »
Actors:
Violet Miller
Maggie Miller
Norman Taylor
Maud Watts
Miss Withers
Rating:
(46’637 votes)
(46’637 votes)
Quotes:
« Violet Miller: You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.
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« Emmeline Pankhurst: For fifty years, we have laboured peacefully to secure the vote for women. We've been ridiculed, battered and ignored. Now we have realised that deeds and sacrifice must be the order of the day. We are fighting for a time in which every little girl born into the world will have an equal chance with her brothers. Never underestimate the power we women have to define our own destinies. We do not want to be law breakers. We want to be law makers. Be militant, each of you in your own way. Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those who can further attack the sacred idol of property, do so! We have been left with no alternative, but to defy this government! If we must go to prison to obtain the vote, let it be the windows of government, not the bodies of women, that shall be broken! I incite this meeting and all the women in Britain to rebellion! I would rather be a rebel than a slave!
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« Maud Watts: We break windows, we burn things. Cause war's the only language men listen to! Cause you've beaten us and betrayed us and there's nothing else left!
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« Inspector Arthur Steed: And there's nothing left but to stop you.
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« Maud Watts: What you gonna do? Lock us all up? We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all.
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« Inspector Arthur Steed: You might lose your life before this is over.
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« Maud Watts: We will win.
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Trailer:
Suffragette Trailer #2
Runtime:106 minutes
Plots:
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
A drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality–their jobs, their homes, their children, and their lives. Maud was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller, it is also heartbreaking and inspirational.
