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Fact versus fi ction on the silver screen

SUFFRAGETTE

Director: Sarah Gavron Starring: CareyMulligan,Anne-MarieDuff,HelenaBonhamCarter Country: UK Released: 2015
Are the British women who campaigned for the vote fairly represented? VERD solid effort that perhaps bites
off more than it can chew
WHATTHEYGOTWRONG… WHATTHEYGOTRIGHT…

At the Epsom Derby, The gaining of the vote The Suffragists do not The absence of the The film makes a point of showing that the
01Emily Davison says to the 02wasn’t down to just 03appear in the film. The 04Labour Party is movement wasn’t just led by Pankhurst. The
main character “never surrender, violence and hunger strikes. members of the NUWSS were not questionable. Sylvia Pankhurst WSPU is correctly portrayed as a group that
never give up the fight.” It’s a Obviously the film can’t cover as violent as the Suffragettes but was a socialist feminist and the attracted members from all levels of society and
moving line, but it hints that everything, but it fails to still helped win the vote. One line Suffrage movement did have different classes, and appealed to those who
she committed suicide, a theory mention the change of tactics at the start of the film dismisses links with the young Labour laboured in the workhouses as much as it did to
many historians now disagree during WWI, which was key to the Suffragists’ contribution Party. It barely mentions Prime upper-class ladies.
with. She is also believed to have gaining the vote. Suffragettes entirely. Sylvia and Christabel Minister Asquith and Lloyd-
worked alone on the day. weren’t always violent. Pankhurst are also absent. George is the sole antagonist.

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