Gender Is The Gender Is a biopic released by Focus Pictures and directed by Mimi Ryder and starring Felicity Jones and Amy Hammer. The film tells the story of Ruth Bud Ginsburg's struggle for women's equal rights in her career and her marriage and family with her husband.
The protagonist of the film is named Ruth, who entered the patriarchal Harvard Law School, but came in to find that both male students and male teachers in the school had serious gender discrimination against her. Only her husband, Martin, has been encouraging her not to give up on her dream of becoming a lawyer, and Martin believes that Ruth is far smarter and wiser than many male students, including himself, and she has been studying hard with Martin's support. With Martin replaced with testicular cancer and unable to attend school, Ruth began to attend classes for him.
In 1970, Ruth's husband Martin recovered from illness and found a job in New York, and she had become a mother of two children, in order to allow her children to get better companionship from her father, she applied to transfer to Grubia University, but was rejected, even though the law school had also passed the transfer application of some male students, but she was rejected because she was a woman. In desperation, Ruth chose to teach law at Rutgers University until one day, Martin showed her an interesting tax fraud case. In this case, a single man supports his sick mother, but he receives tax benefits that are inconsistent with women in the same situation, simply because of gender.
Ruth quickly realized that if she could get the U.S. Federal Appeals Court to overturn the outcome of this case with male sexism, then she could create a precedent, so Ruth saw the inspiration of the case, hoping to start from the unfairness of the law to men, and then talk about the inequality between the two sexes in the law, and propose the discrimination against women in the law, so as to gradually achieve his equal rights purpose. In the end, Ruth won the case, thus starting her legendary life, gradually becoming the second female judge in American history to enter the Supreme Court.
This is a biographical film that focuses on the first American Jewish female justice, Ruth. Bye. Ginsburg's legendary experience, which focuses on Ruth's experience from entering Harvard Law School to successfully winning the first affirmative action case, gives us a part of the famous judge's life experience and her efforts for equal rights. However, this film is not so good, the heroine's acting skills are not so good, there is a feeling of excessive force in some places, and the character building is not prominent. In addition, the opening of the film is slightly hasty about the background and family relationships, while the plot after entering Ruth's case is not tense enough.
Although this film is not so well made, I still recommend it, first of all, the film is also a window for us to understand the legendary judge. Secondly, the views expressed in the film on equal rights, of course, are also the views that Ruth has always insisted on and worked hard for deserves our attention and consideration, such as her belief that "the real feminist rights are equal rights." ”