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DVD Iron Jawed Angels
The fight for women's voting rights has rarely been given as dramatic a treatment as in Iron Jawed Angels. Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) and Frances O'Connor (Mansfield Park) star as second-wave suffragettes Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who led the final fight for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Though the movie sometimes tries too hard to avoid the stigma of a period piece (the soundtrack features electric guitars, Swank has a steamy moment in a bathtub, and the editing is jagged and flashy), the mounting energy of the fight--and the increasingly nasty opposition--gains real momentum when a wartime picket line leads to Paul, Burns, and their sisters-in-arms being arrested on trumped-up charges and imprisoned. The actors--including Julia Ormond (Smilla's Sense of Snow), Angelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor, The Grifters), and Brooke Smith (Vanya on 42nd Street)--give fervent, determined performances. --Bret Fetzer
I go to a woman's college and they showed us this movie at the beginning of the school year. It is an absolutely amazing movie. I don't think I ever really realized everything that went into the fight for woman's voting rights. I knew some details but this movie really makes it real, and being a woman it meant a lot for me personally to see what sacrifices were made for me and all women so that we would have an equal say in government. The movie is also very accessible because it has a modern twist through the music and cinematography. Hilary Swank did an excellent job and Francis O'Connor was a character whom I felt like a related to. She was the comic relief in many ways but still steadfast in her determination. Watch it, you won't regret it, it's a real eye opener.
Inspiration and Eduacational
Not only did I find the story of Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) fascinating, but I also appreciated Hollywood's willingness to tell a truth and not a fairytale. Paul's activism for woman suffrage in the United States during the 1910s is chronicled in this movie. Although my fellow reviews criticize the superfluous aspects of the movie (a love interest and random small talk), it helps to describes Paul's drive and determination to achieve the right for women to vote. The writer and director of the movie "Iron Jawed Angels" did their homework to find the true Alice Paul, and it is evident for anyone who has studied the women suffragists of the 1910s. Whether you believe that Paul's radical tactics made her a hero or stain on America's history pages, Swank deserves every acclaim for her portrayal of the emotion and fever for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Could have been much better.
I applaud this film for reminding us of how hard people have fought for rights we take for granted. It also reminds us that scummy politicians (including presidents) are not a new phenomenon.
The film has some real problems too. The modern music is a disaster. Its pretty weird and distracting to be listening to electric guitars tied to scenes which occurred before they were invented. Another bad idea is the repeated use of multiple images with looped sound. This stuff looks like parts of a deranged music video accidently spliced in.
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, rejected five times by the USC film school, won the best director award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for this alarmingly personal investigation into the health hazards wreaked by our fast food nation. Under extensive medical supervision, Spurlock subjects himself to a steady diet of McDonald's cuisine for 30 days just to see what happens. In less than a week, his ordinarily fit body and equilibrium undergo dark and ugly changes: Spurlock grows fat, his cholesterol rockets north, his organs take a beating, and he becomes subject to headaches, mood swings, symptoms of addiction, and lessened sexual energy. The gimmick is too obvious to sustain a feature documentary; Spurlock actually spends most of the film probing insidious ways that fast food companies... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dr. Daryl Isaacs DVD Release Date: Released the 28 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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