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Made in Dagenham
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Release : | 2010 |
Rating : | 7.1 |
Studio : | BBC Film, HanWay Films, UK Film Council, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Sally Hawkins Bob Hoskins Miranda Richardson Geraldine James Rosamund Pike |
Genre : | Drama Comedy History |
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The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Made in Dagenham is a movie about the true story of women working in the Ford Dagenham car plant that went on strike to fight for pay equality. This movie brilliantly captures the pay inequality crisis. It brings awareness to the cause and provides eye opening information that can encourage people of all ages to fight for what's right. Equal pay was a problem long ago and is still a very big problem today. This movie was very inspiring, specifically for the female sex, but for the male sex too. I thought this movie really brought a reality to the wage gap how it affects a person's life. The fact that this movie is based on a true story makes it all the more empowering. I encourage all women to watch this and to see what they are capable of. The parts of this movie that I felt were especially honest were the parts that acknowledged the troubles that the main character, Rita O'Grady, and her family went through. I thought that these scenes really made the movie because it shows the reality that life is not always pots of gold under the rainbow, but that everyone goes through hard times no matter how strong they seem on the outside. In addition, Made in Dagenham showed how families and loved ones can come through and support one another in the end. To conclude, Made in Dagenham did a wonderful job of expressing how many women around the world feel about the wage gap and the extreme actions that had to be taken in 1968 to make things right. Although pay inequality is still a major issue today, it is being acknowledged in many ways throughout the world, whether it's through foundations, companies, or movies like this one, it is still being fought for and as long as people keep working hard, someday the gap can be closed.
Sally Hawkins is becoming an increasingly consistent actress, one who can largely be depended on to carry a film or flow smoothly as a supporting character. She has a certain acting style, or rick, one that comes across as an anxiously awaiting tick. It usually always works though, as it does here. She's pretty great, and for a more than great year for lead actresses, she'd make my Top 10 for the category. The supporting cast is also well-rounded (is that miranda Richardson?). I sought this out because of Rosamund Pike, and she's certainly very good, but so are other actresses and it's still nice to see Pike work nicely as a supporting fit as well. I don't think the film is amazing, and I can see why it got so lost in the shuffle, but it's still well worth seeing.
The movie has a cast of likable protagonists, coupled with fantastic humor and a gripping story (based on real life events which make it even better) and is well acted with pretty much everyone putting in solid work.The issue at hand is equal pay for women, and it's fascinating to see what it was like for them way back in 1969 and wonder if things have changed now that we're pushing 2015.This movie really needs to be seen by a lot more people, because I feel like in another twenty years this will be looked back upon as one of those under appreciated movies that didn't get much notice when it first came out.So if you haven't, go and watch it.
Sally Hawkins' Golden Globe winning in 2009 for HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (2008) prompts herself to the eminent status as a new rising star from UK, so two years later, she acquired another hard- earned leading role in this Nigel Cole (CALENDAR GIRLS 2003, a 7/10) helmed biographic story of women's fighting for equal rights (equal pay). It is rather hard to believe that merely half-a-century ago, equal pay would induce such a startling pain-in-the-neck in UK, the most advanced and civilised country in the world, which should have been taken for granted by anyone anywhere now without a second thought. So each and every little progress in the human history needs tremendous effort to push behind it, and gladly this film is able to manage a solid job to portray such an effort with a strongly female- skewed cast. Hawkins has an ardent inner power within her willowy body, the most intense scene is the explosive encounter between her and her husband (Daniel Mays), when she shoots back with the punchline "It is what it should be!", definitely a soul-lifting achievement just by one single line and her current ranking is among my top 5 in the leading actress category. Then comes to the supporting group, Oscar-nominees Hoskins and Richardson are both fine, but unfortunately no scene-stealing moment; otherwise veteran Geraldine James and the former Bond-girl Rosamund Pike are the lucky ones here, the former is compellingly amiable even in her saddest time, while the latter deftly utilising her very meagre screen time to declare her faculty in transform some average shots into her personal proscenium (she is among my top 10 supporting actress list). The film may not be an idiosyncratic piece of work which should have infusing new blood into the heartening but vaguely worn-out biography breed, and more or less, its narrative strategy is too formal and a trifle conservative, but it has its flair in instilling a feel-good assurance to its audience without being dictatorial and sermonic, plus an adroit engineering of its source material into its maximum momentum, and last not the least, a laudable UK troupe is the key of it.