One of the worst movies I've ever seen

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

A historical snapshot of history showing the practical slavery englishes submitted themselves to. Real slavery was just one notch worse it seems. Clothes and all the backdrops of past are well depicted. Cute film. Now vote, bitches! haha!

This entire movie was a hit piece! Pure feminist revisionist history! And I see so many reviews saying "Historical", "Truth that needed telling", "Educational", etc... Are you kidding me? This was PURE FICTION! These women were evil harpies!First of all, it's heavily implied that men had the vote at the time and women were denied it; WRONG. Most men weren't allowed to vote at that time, either; especially someone like the lower-class husband. Every male in this movie is portrayed as a violent, misogynistic thug, seeking only to oppress women. The reason women's suffrage failed in England at first, is because these shrill hags were demanding all women get to vote, while most men didn't have the vote and were currently being blown to pieces in World War I. It was a political catastrophe to be screaming for special rights that men who were dying by the thousands didn't have.THEN, to put icing on the cake, these same sanctimonious cows participated in the "White Feather Campaign", where they assumed any man in England not wearing a military uniform was a coward and openly and publicly shamed him to join the army; not giving a whit what his actual situation was. Many active-duty men on leave, discharged wounded soldiers, domestic public servants, sole family providers, etc. were publicly humiliated by these tramps.At first, property ownership was required to vote, and most men didn't even own property. Then, military service was tied to the vote and women were exempt from serving. Even still, almost immediately after men were granted the vote - as a consolation prize for being slaughtered wholesale in WWI - women were granted the vote... because vagina. All of the vacuous, ignorant, arrogant comments from the leftist, Marxist, feminist idiots demonstrate their complete indoctrination into the cult of political correctness, where facts don't matter and propaganda spin is doubleplus goodthink rectification.

Coaxed into joining the Suffragette movement, an early twentieth century factory worker becomes instrumental in the fight for women to have the right to vote in this historical drama that blends fictional and real life characters together. Carey Mulligan is well cast as the title character, credible every step of the way as she gradually progresses from nonchalance to activism and has to deal with losing her stable home life in the process. Meryl Streep also does well in a minor role as the leader of the Suffragette movement, but quality acting aside, this is a hard film to recommend. Above all else, 'Suffragette' is relentlessly grim and angry. The washed-out grey colour scheme does the film no favours and there is not a single moment of comic relief to be had. It is endlessly downbeat too and as the only likable male character in the entire film is Mulligan's preteen son, the film comes off as rather biased, which makes it hard to warm to its important messages about standing up for equality and fairness. Those keenly interested in the subject might, however, find more to like in the film. Some history buffs have dismissed the movie for its invention of a composite character protagonist, however, the graphic depiction of the violent lengths to which women had to go in their quest for equality is certainly hard to shake. Same goes for the gritty jail scenes where Mulligan is at her most emotionally shattered. This is, however, a film to approach with caution. One definitely needs to be in the right mood as it depicts more of a sad rather than uplifting slice of modern history.

England, 1912. Women don't have the vote and one woman, Emmeline Pankhurst (played by Meryl Streep), is trying to rectify that. She is the leader of the Suffragette movement and, after trying peaceful means to obtain their goals, their methods turn more extreme. On the fringes of the movement is Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), a factory worker. She tries to stay out of the struggle but is inexorably drawn into it. What she sees and endures is brutal, and ultimately ground-breaking.The story of a how woman came to get the vote in the UK is a story of courage and conviction and one that deserves telling. The work of Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes was revolutionary, necessary and ultimately successful. The movie shows well what the situation was like for women at the time and how they achieved their ends.However, it is incredibly heavy-handed in its approach. Every male in the movie is portrayed one-dimensionally, as an ogre and oppressor and unsympathetic to women and their cause. There is not a single likable, or even non-dislikeable, male in the movie. A bit difficult to like the movie too much when it is so manipulative and unbalanced.Quite dull in spells, too. Pretty much conventional, paint-by-numbers storytelling.