The movie "Vera Drake"

Vera Drake is the name of a movie that was created in 2004, but it based in the fifties, in London, Britain. The movie shows the kind of life that the people have in that time. We see the differences between the high class and the working class. In this case, Drake family belongs to a working class who seem so happy together. Drake looks so kind in the movie because she feels useful to the people and she helps everyone as much as she can. However, that gesture of kindness ends badly.

In the movie there are some social and political references. In the fifties, women were second class citizens, they had the right to vote since 1920, but they didn’t hold office in any large numbers. Also, according to the “women rights”, men decided if they wanted to have sex with the woman that they had chosen. Given this, the woman did not have any choice, they can’t say that they didn’t want because the right of man prevailed upon woman's. According to this, also if the man had to have the baby, the woman had to have it. There is a part in the movie which shows a man kissing and touching a woman who doesn’t want to make it, but finally he gets it. Another reference is that the women apart of raising her children, keeping the house clean and cooking, they could go to work outside of  her  home. They used to work in the factories or they worked in the field because the men in this period had to go to the war and they leave their jobs, but when they came back they wanted their jobs back too. The protagonist, Vera Drake, has two jobs, one in the factory and the other one cleaning the houses of rich people. Another reference which is important in this period is the rights of black women. They had a lot less rights than white women. Black women were discriminated against, just because they were black. The movie shows a black women crying because of her sad situation.

The film is socially realistic because that happened in the fifties. It shows a lot of interesting characteristics that are interesting to know. To become as we are, the women have fought for the rights that we have now. The women were treated as if they were less important than the men. But any men thought how they were if they weren’t women just because they didn’t lift any finger to do things in the house. The women started doing a lot of strikes to win their rights and they got it. 

So it’s interesting to see movies like this one and see what happened in the past for understand why the things are like this now.

I hope you enjoy it. :)