MOVIE...WE WANT MAKE SEX

MOVIES WE WANT SEX

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BY JONATHAN CAMERON

They say that feminism is dead. This may be true, but the film Made in Dagenham is a reminder of the battle in the past for women’s rights. It tells the true story of a strike by female employees at the Ford Motor Works in Dagenham in 1968.

The film in Brazil is titled a A Revolução em Dagenham, different from the blunt little it received in countries like Germany and Italy: We want Sex. This is a reference to a scene in the film. In their campaign for equal pay, the women have a banner which says “We Want Sex Equality.”  When they unfurl it, the last word, “equality,” is missing and the message is different!

BIG NAMES

The film stars Sally Hawkins as Rita O’Grady, the leader of the strike. She became a star Mike Leigh’s 2008 film, Happy-Go-Lucky. At 34, she is considered a rising star of British cinema. The cast also features great actors from older generations: Bob Hoskins, 68, and Miranda Richardson, 52. Hoskins plays Albert Passingham, a shop steward, and Richardson, plays Barbara Castle. Barbara castle was a Labour government minister in the 1960s: she was only the fourth woman in British history to become a minister. Not surprisingly, she gave her support to the striking women of Dagenham. As Sally Hawkins explains, the strike was important. Two years later parliament passed “The Equal Pay Act.”

And what about Dagenham, the film’s other character? It is an industrial town in Essex, near London. Tourists rarely go there, but maybe that will change!