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Misbehaviour Movie Review An activism well begun
Updated On: 16 January, 2021 08:38 AM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
The film is studded with earnest, sincere, heartfelt performances from an ensemble. The direction and pacing allow for complete involvement and the period setting adds weight to the authenticity of the overall effort.
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Misbehaviour
Based on a true story, this film, is a fairly accurate recollection of the events that brought the Womens’ liberation movement to the forefront of world consciousness at the Miss World Pageant of 1970, London. It not only questions the status quo of those times but also puts forth a strong argument in favour of dispensing off with the then predominantly patriarchal view that women were meant to be seen and classified for their beauty and not heard or counted for their intelligence.
The pageant was a fountainhead of controversies - racial, geopolitical and gender denigrating. The anti-apartheid crusaders indirectly forced Eric (Rhys Ifans) and Julia Morley (Keely Hawes) to complicate pageant rules and in turn reinforce the racial divide with the inclusion of a white and a black (South African) representative from the same country. So, the world press was indeed out in full force and this gave a handful of intrepid, enterprising women fighting for respect and dignity, a never before opportunity to make their voices heard.
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