It can be hard to review films and shows based on a real person’s life. How accurate is the portrayal? What vital context are we, as the audience, missing? Somehow, it becomes even more difficult when the person had a widespread impact on history and society at large, as is the case with ITV’s and BritBox’s latest focus, Ruth Ellis.
Those of you outside of the U.K. may have never heard of Ellis—I’ll admit I hadn’t either, as my family is Dutch and I only moved to the U.K. eight years ago—but she is an undeniably important figure in British history. In 1955, 28-year-old Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the U.K. after she was convicted of murdering her lover, playboy racing driver David Blakely. It was a major case, not only because she shot him point-blank in front of a busy London pub, but because she became a figurehead for women everywhere. She was punished by the British establishment for more than Blakely’s death—she was punished because she represented everything women weren’t allowed to become.
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