Heather Graham as Mary Kelly
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Robbmonster — 10 years ago(May 18, 2015 10:49 AM)
Agreed.
But you aren't the first person to point this out. Not by a long shot.
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puirt-a-beul — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 12:35 AM)
Yes, it's a pity (in a dramatic sense) that they glamourised the women's lives, and made all the women considerably younger and more attractive than they were in real life.
I'd like to see a version of the story that depicts the women accurately, that does justice to their memory by showing the people they were and the lives they struggled to make the best of. But that'll never happen; as a culture we've bought into the idea that any "unfortunate" has to look like Heather Graham or Julia Roberts before we'll see tham as the heroine of a story.
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Livana_Faolan — 10 years ago(March 08, 2016 07:58 AM)
I watched the movie for the first time last night, and I don't feel that the prostitutes' lives were glamorized at all.
How do you feel that their lives were glamorized?
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Bergman_Fellini87 — 10 years ago(March 11, 2016 05:47 AM)
Well, the Ripper's victims were not particularly good looking & unhealthy. Nichols had some of her teeth missing, & Chapman was quite sick at the time of her death.
This film does portray them as more pretty & cleaner, & the living conditions not as desperate as people were in reality.
Pretty much nothing in this film is accurate.