Iron jawed angels

Iron jawed angels is american drama movie. It was

directed by Katja von Garnier. The main actors were
Hilary Swank as suffragist leader Alice Paul, Anjelica
Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt, Julia Ormond as Inez
Milholland and Frances O'Connor as activist Lucy Burns.
Movie introduces us to a world where women have no
rights. Suffragettes were trying to solve that problem.
The film begins with return of Alice Paul and Lucy
Burns from the England where they met while
participating in the Women's Social and Political Union.
While visiting art gallery Alice convinces labor lawyer
Inez Milhollan to join the suffragettes.Then Alice meets
Ben Weissman(newspaper political cartoonist) and they
fall in love. Women's Suffrage Parade was organized in
1913 on the eve of President Woodrow Wilson's
inauguration. Only then they realized their power, and
they separated from the central party suffragettes and
formed their movement called National Woman's
Party(NWP). National Woman's Party had their own
ways of protest such as protesting against Wilson and
picketing outside the White House in the Silent Sentinels
action. Women are captured for their actions, though
they are charged with "obstructing traffic." The women
are sent to the Occoquan Workhouse for 60-day terms.
Despite miserable living conditions, Paul and other
women undertake a hunger strike, during which paid
guards force-feed them milk and raw eggs. When the
senator visited his captive wife she gave him a letter in
which she wrote about contitions in wich women are
living in this prison and what they all force. The news
spread and wilson caved and gave women what they
deserve.

This movie is definitely a quite realistic view of the

struggle for women's rights in the United States.Movie
presented details in tensions between white and black
suffragists who also want to fight for their rights. The
only downside of this film is that it's still Hollywoodmovie in which suffragettes presented as attractive,
charismatic woman, and the real suffragettes rebelled
against such a display as physical appearance and such
valuation and discounting women to object is precisely
the case against which the were fighting.
This is a movie that would definitely recommend it to
anyone because it shows us through what we as a
society need to go and we have to keep in mind that
these are things that have not happened so long ago,
and today we can ask the question whether women in all
spheres of society are equal to men or do we still need
to work on that.