it almost impossible to imagine that less than 100 year ago and our country government do not allow it female citizen to vote and and what sadder be and the men in charge at that time would not have amend the constitution to include woman if it hadn not be for relentlessly drive and fiercely intelligent and humblingly courageous people like alice paul and who be depict in this show a be deeply conflict about how far she know she would have to go to push the envelope and but she do it anyway because it simply have to be do . in this day and age and all young girl ( who take so much for grant ) should be make to watch this film a a brutal lesson in history . kudos to all concern and particularly hilary swank who couldn not have be any more compelling a the heroic alice paul .