I was also reminded of a vulnerable woman named Rosa Parks, whom Congress called the mother of the modern civil rights movement. In 1955, people of color still lived very hard, and even the bus separated people of color from white people. Rosa, who was tired after get off work, sat in the color area, but because the white seat was full, the driver asked Rosa to Standing up to make way for the white man, Rosa refused, preferring to be arrested than to have her rights violated. This event directly contributed to the black civil rights movement. But Rosa's temperament is not as tough and sturdy as everyone imagines. She is really shy and quiet.
Rita in "Made in Dagenham" is also such a woman, shy on the outside, but resolute on the inside. There is a huge disparity in the treatment of women and men, and although women's work is also very heavy, women's wages are very low because of gender alone. Rita stood up appropriately and shouted the slogans of "equality of wages" and "equality of men and women". She is a very ordinary woman, but this is the moving part, isn't it? I've seen so many speeches that are free-flowing, either motivating or outrageous, but I can't help but cry when Rita is almost trembling and plucking up the courage to make her point. I guess that's the power of fragility.
A woman with a slightly shy personality, she is vulnerable but not weak against the huge state apparatus. When talking to Barbara, she said, "We are all ordinary female workers, and so are you." Rita is very smart, she got out of the misunderstanding of her thinking early, and told the world, "This is how the hell should be, we have to be equal! "
The three experiences of Rita in the movie made me cry. First, she was trembling, and for the first time in the sweltering workshop, she shouted the slogan: "Wage Equality". The second time was when her husband said, I don't drink, I don't beat my kids, I've tried my best. Rita couldn't hide her anger and pain, "What do you think is the point of a strike? ... You don't drink, you don't beat children, but everything should be like this!" The third time she spoke to everyone at the convention, calling for Equality between men and women. I think what makes Rita attractive is that she is fragile and ordinary. But she was so bold, so powerful, so clever, so wise.
The gap in front of everyone is actually not difficult to bridge. Most importantly, give it a try. I was in Taipei, and the day after watching the film, I saw this sentence on a roadside sign calling for same-sex marriage to be allowed. No matter what level of society develops, there will be some drawbacks and blind spots. What we need to do is to try it out and see what we can achieve, so that the world can be changed a little bit because of you.
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