Iron Jawed Angels

We're legitimate citizens. We're taxed without representation. We're not allowed to serve on juries so we're not tried by our peers. It's unconscionable, not to mention unconstitutional. We don't make the laws but we have to obey them like children.
Alice Paul, Iron Jawed Angels
Suffrage has never been so Sexy


You know the Women's Suffrage Movement? Yeah, that one. Remember when they got the vote? Well, I think we can all agree that was an important moment in American History? Yeah, it's great, from Susan B. Anthony to Alice Paul, such perseverance, such power of spirit, such... No wait don't go! What if I made it sexy?!

BOOM! Iron Jawed Angels!

Iron Jawed Angels is a 2004 movie detailing the tail end of the American campaign for Women's Suffrage. Most of the events in the movie actually happened, the story is compelling, the acting is good, the writing is tight... but, well, it gets kinda weird at times.

Maybe it's weird in order to make the movie more accessible to a younger generation, maybe it's just the Hollywood machine getting its dirty hands all over another well-intentioned historical drama, but what with the experimental camera work, the especially forced romantic subplot and the anachronistic slang and hip-hop soundtrack watching this movie can feel kinda surreal. Not bad, just kinda surreal.

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