Film Art Event

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I went to see Made in Dagenham at the Nickelodeon theater. It was a very interesting movie about women going on strike for equal pay in the late 1960s/early 1970s. The establishing shot was the image of women riding on bicycles to work. The establishing shot made the time period obvious by the style of bicycles and the way the women were dressed. The most unique camera angle that I noticed was a scene with the main character and her husband on the staircase in their apartment building. It was a view from the ground up and it seemed as if the camera person as laying on the ground and looking up at the staircase. I thought it was really neat and wonder if the camera person was laying on the ground. It was definitely a low-angle shot. The story line of the film definitely moved me as a woman. It made me feel proud to be a woman and even more proud that women now have equal pay because of one woman standing up for the rest of us. The scene that moved me the most was when she went to Ford headquarters and instead of looking down and not speaking like she was told to do, she spoke up and made a point that the women that were machinists were very skilled and deserved to be payed the same amount as men. It was incredible to see and hear her explaining all of these things to the men in charge of Ford. The main character, (real name Sally Hawkins) did a fantastic job portraying her character. She was very convincing from the way she expressed her emotions to her body language. All of the women that she worked with in the factory portrayed their roles well. They were very convincing that they were unhappy in their working conditions. The soundtrack was appropriate for the movie. Each song set the mood for the particular scene. Made in Dagenham is a combination between history and drama. It is based on history and the events in the movie are real and dramatic. Not only did I learn about the events when women went on strike for equal pay, but I learned about the working conditions they were faced with as well as the hardships. I learned about the events in detail from watching the movie.