A Synopsis Of The Movie (NAWSA)

The film is a great representation of what the women had to go though to get the right to vote. It is very accurate to what actually happened in history. Alice Paul led many suffragists in parades, strikes and even picketing the white house. The movie shows what little support they got at first and the hard work they put into making people hear what they had to say and they gave themselves a voice that needed to be heard, it shows that when the NAWSA did not support them that they didn’t give up and kept fighting and make their own association called NWP, it shows the anger they took from people that were not for their movement, it showed how much they can conquer as women, it showed the determination and the passion each woman had for the cause, it shows them getting physically attacked well they protest peacefully and you can just see how much hostility there was for the women
during the women’s suffrage, it shows that there is still racism during the suffrage and the tensions it caused when they all just wanted the same goal, and it just shows the triumph of the women doing it on their own and fighting so strongly for what they believe in. They continued to protest even when there was a war going on because they were fighting so strongly for something and it shows the false arrests and the false accusations of them breaking the law and then the terrible imprisonment conditions they had to go through like getting force fed and just the fact they seemed to be treated worse than the other people in the prison. Hollywood tends to always put some kind of drama or fiction in a movie just so people will show more interest and want to view the movie.
Movies are meant to entertain people and give them something to hold on to. For example, the romance in the movie I assume is fiction because the women in the suffrage were very driven and goal focused and I really don’t think Alice Paul was out doing romantic things and everyone knows that there always has to be the good love story in the movie. When the women protested or picketed in front of the white house was very peaceful and quiet so when Alice Paul was doing a rant in the movie I feel like that was either dramatized or didn’t happen at all. A big thing that I noticed was the lack of support from men and in all reality in history men did support to women’s movement, maybe not all men but there was still some that did and in the movie it seems like there is not a single male that supports them besides at the end when the senator finally realizes everything and then the president and also the guy that changed his vote from against to being for
it. I think this movie is a very good way to learn from history and what actually happened. There may be some things that are not one hundred percent factual, but there still are a lot of accurate things to this movie. People should watch this movie to get a better understanding of what women actually had to go through to get to where we are now. I think so many people forget about how women used to have it and how we did not always have what we do now. Just plain and simple get a better understanding and value for what we have today and all the things women can do. You have to remember you many not have had to go through all these things to get what you have but someone else did. People fought and suffered just so women could have the same rights as men.