Iron Jawed Angels

Last night I watched Iron Jawed Angels with Hilary Swank, Frances O’Connor, Angelica Huston, Julia Ormond and Patrick Dempsey. A great line-up of talent and a movie every student should be required to watch. The girls, so they know the battles fought for their right to vote and the boys, so they can see what damage ignorance and male ego can do.

But it’s so typical of American movies that a love interest must be inserted. I think Dempsey was tossed onto the scene because the producers don’t believe women will watch a movie without a hunk in it. I’m sure they’ll comment with the usual “the movie is for entertainment” to cover the fiction part of the story, including the music. Great music but so wrong for the period and so candying of such a serious subject.

It’s also amazing that Alice Paul lived to be 92. Maybe it’s because she didn’t marry. J