Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Billy Wonka (A) on December 13, 2015 at 13:56:19

There just wasn't enough gas to bring this historical drama to a boil. Lukewarm and lavish (like many Brit films) isn't enough to inspire or entertain. Sure, the meticulous production values made it visually appealing in every way but the story and its many facets failed to excite.

Mulligan, a hard working washerwoman, gets accidentally drug into the Suffragette Movement as a way of speaking out against the female repressive society of Great Britain at the time. Having grown up in the laundry she knew nothing else and was married to a "washerman" in the form of Whishaw.

Her deepening involvement and pursuit by Brendan Gleeson served to estrange her from her husband and to lose her job. Serving jail times for her actions finally broke her when Whishaw gave up their son for adoption.

It is a passionate story done without enough passion to spill forth from the screen. Mulligan and supporting cast were all excellent yet it was all day old Halibut at the market.

I learned two things of note: 1) Suffragettes were a terror organization who set off a good number of bombs in London and surrounding areas. 2) In the epilogue countries were listed giving their date of full voting rights of women. Shockingly, Switzerland gave women the vote in 1971. (Yodelers aren't so dumb after all.)

Wait for cable.