Director: Mimi Leder
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 120
minutes
Year:
2018
Starring: Felicity
Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates, Stephen Root,
Jack Reynor, Ben Carlson, Chris Mulkey
Description: The true
story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones), her struggles for equal rights,
and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and
confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Review: In a sea of dark suites with ties, a blue flared dress suddenly appears,
stocking-with-seams underneath. It is 1956 and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is rather
out of place at Harvard University where she is starting her law studies. The new
batch is welcomed by the dean who consistently refers to them as the ‘Harvard
man’. He wants to know from the handful of female students why they are taking the
place of the man.
That much has changed in male-female
relationships since then is partly due to people like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “On
the Basis of Sex” looks back at the career of the lawyer who has devoted her
working life to straightening out what is legally skewed between women and men.
Felicity Jones is fantastic
as the earnest student who, married young and becoming a mother, struggles to
find her way in a professional world where men are the ones who get pats on the
back. Extraordinary that her husband and professional colleague Martin Ginsberg
wo naturally shares her outrage at an unequal society. And becomes the main
homemaker.
The film mainly underlines
the historical importance of that career and the film is worth watching. I
loved seeing her grow. Ruth Bader Ginsberg is one of the most inspirational women
in history. She became an icon. The film shows beautifully how the little
Jewish New Yorker who grew up debating stuck to the letter of the law while the
world around her was rapidly changing.
Rating: 4/
5
