In today's connected era, the content that we consume has a great impact on how we perceive our mindset. The content can be anything from what we read to the cinema that we watch. So we present to you few movies that we believe every woman should watch to have a better perception of the world.
The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady is a biographical film based on the life of a British States women, politician and the longest serving Prime Minister of the UK of the 20th century - Margaret Thatcher. The film presents the struggles of Margaret as a young lower-middle-class woman to find a place in the house of commons which was male-dominated. Also, the movie shows some of the Historical events that took place when Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister of UK and the way she was forced to resign as PM due to the loss of support from her cabinet colleagues.
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The ending of the movie is quite extraordinary and leaves the audience in tears. Iron Lady is not just a movie but it’s the life of a strong independent woman who, with immense determination and hard work found herself a remarkable place in the world history.
Frozen
Frozen is the 53rd animated Disney feature film inspired by the fairy tale ‘The Snow Queen’ by Hans Christian Andersen. The story revolves around the sisters Anna and Elsa, the princesses of Arendelle. Elsa is the eldest one and possesses cryokinetic powers. There comes a situation in the story where and Anna gets frozen accidentally by Elsa and only an act of true love can revoke the power.
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Unlike other movies where the princess is awakened by the kiss of a young charming prince, this movie highlights the love between sisters and shows that one need not search for true love, it already exists around us in the form of parents and siblings.
12 Years a Slave
This film is an adaptation of 1853 slave narrative memoir, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. The film is about a free African-American Solomon Northup being kidnapped and sold to a plantation worker as a slave. During his years as a slave, he comes across cruel, callous people who suck the blood of the slaves working under them.
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He meets Patsy, a Young woman slave who is repeatedly raped and abused by the plantation worker (this part of the film gives a glimpse of the lives of women slaves at that time). After 12 years he goes free with the help of a friend and returns home to be comforted by his family. Often times we run after the life and forget to appreciate all that we have. This movie is an eye-opener to not just women, but to everybody to appreciate what we possess (like freedom) thus making it a must watch.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a 1939 movie, based on the novel written by Emily Bronte. The film eliminates the 2nd generation characters and depicts only half the chapters. This film has won a number of awards and is a story of love and revenge which shows, to extremities love and revenge can take a person to.
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The characters Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, and Heath cliff are beautifully portrayed by the actors Merle Oberon, David Niven and Lawrence Olivier. This movie shows that the line that divides love and hate, hate and revenge is very thin and the transformation of love to revenge can bring about drastic measures. Wuthering height is a movie that must be watched by every woman before 30 to understand the dark side of love.
Written by
Indu Mithra Madhuranthakam
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