Movie of the day: Suffragette

Suffragette is a 2015 British historical drama film about women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. The film also sheds light on the conditions of the working class and the working women in England in the 1900s. In 1912, Maud Watts is a 24-year-old laundry worker. While delivering a package, she is caught up in a suffragette protest which includes her workmate, Violet Miller. After Maud, who is married and has children, starts to get to know the suffragettes, her life changes. After attending a protest, she is arrested, and jailed for a week. She faces stigma from neighbors and workmates. She tells her husband that she will stay away from the suffragettes but attends a secret rally to hear Pankhurst speak. She is detained again and taken home by police. Her husband throws her out. She struggles to see her son, continuing to work until her picture is published as a known suffragette.