Suffragette (film)

Suffragette is a 2015 British historical period drama directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, AnneMarie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Meryl Streep.

In 1912, Maud Watts Carey Mulligan is a 24yearold laundress. While delivering a package one day, she is caught up in a suffragette riot involving smashing windows, where she recognizes one of her coworkers, Violet Miller AnneMarie Duff. Later, Alice Haughton Romola Garai, the wife of an MP, encourages the women from the laundry to speak out to parliament and give testimony in order to secure the right to vote. Violet is the one who offers to testify however, she is beaten by her abusive husband and subsequently Maud is the one who testifies. Maud is energized by her testimony and goes with Violet and other women to see if women have been given the right to vote. When she learns that they have not, the police officers turn on the women and begin beating them. Maud is caught up in the crowd and is arrested for a week. While in jail, she meets Emily Davison, a confidant of Emmeline Pankhurst.Returning home, Maud faces social stigma from her neighbours and coworkers. She promises her husband Sonny to stay away from the suffragettes. However, Maud is invited to a secret rally to hear Pankhurst speak. While there, she has a brief exchange with Pankhurst, after which she is detained by the police again who drop her off in front of her home. This time, her husband throws her out on the street. Maud struggles to see her son despite her husbands objections and continues to work until her picture is printed in the newspaper as a known suffragette. Maud is then fired and, reaching a breaking point, takes an iron and burns the hand of her male supervisor who has been sexually abusing her and other young girls in the laundry for years. The police are called and Inspector Steed Brendan Gleeson allows her to leave and offers her an opportunity to inform on the other members of her cell. Maud refuses. ........

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