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The movie follows the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain, even pursuing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
This is much more than a film about women demanding to vote; it's about women's struggle to be heard and taken seriously, most notably in the workplace as well as in their own homes.
Sure, script is hokey at times, and the film features a shockingly small amount of Meryl Streep considering her billing, but the historical event at its core transcends these finicky notes.
Mulligan, in particular, delivers, bringing believability to a role that's quite a stretch, given the transformation her character has to go through from workaday mum to first-wave feminist superhero.
What is the point of the silly, histrionic teatime drama Suffragette? Certainly not to focus on the actual suffering of the suffragettes, who a little more than 100 years ago were sent to prison and force-fed after a string of "terrorist" attacks.