Taylor And Maude Monologue

Shot one:
In this shot, we see a mid-close up shot of the two characters; Taylor and Maud. Taylor is looking down of Maud, this could represent the type of man Taylor is, a man who is high up with a purpose and also has respect, unlike Maud, a women who just works for me and barely has any respect due to being a women and a worker. This shot is based in the laundry, where Taylor owns and Maud works, the background of this shot is grey and blue to show the audience the dullness and the sadness within Maud as its focussing on her as the directors notes states “in the laundry, we tried to take warmth out and make the colour palette steely and grey” this is when we begin to see the change through her facial expressions, she’s there but her is elsewhere,
“They are staffed by workers, very neat and together and in control, smoothing things out and cleaning and ironing and getting rid of the stains of life, but what is actually going on underneath is a kind of slavery” as Sarah Gavron states in her directors notes as well as “when you look at photographs of laundries from that time, all you can is repression” which is suggesting the struggle of women like Maud, this allows the audience to think and realise how well us women have it now compared to women in Maud’s time, as many advances for women, law changes, as this was a first step for feminism. Also in this scene it begins with Maud arriving at the laundry, where she is present but her mind isn’t, we soon see this change as her mind ‘comes back’ to the present moment as she makes her decision of finally sticking up for herself, she does this by using violence, with slamming the hot heavy iron on his Taylor’s hand, this foreshadows what and how the Suffragettes fight for their rights and what they want to be changed. This also reflects the change in Maud’s personality. The audience better understands that Maud is beginning to change as she starts standing up for herself as well as her rights, for example there is a right for