PETERLOO Director Q&A | TIFF 2018

[@CindyCallaghan1]

I have just been to see the film and it has a resonance on so many levels with the fight for truth and universal suffrage today. Workers striking for their rights are still regarded as a threat and a mindless mob.

[@Busybee65]

John Lees was a British soldier who fought with Wellington at Waterloo, 4 years later he was killed by a British cavalry charge at Peterloo as a protester. now let that sink in.

[@sheilalaffey879]

Mike Leigh in person w/ the film tonight in Santa Monica. Hope to make it. Sounds relevant these days too!

[@campbellcaraher1008]

Tolpuddle martyrs next and the 1832 reform Act and its subsequent repeal next please ?

[@stephenagnew5677]

Yeah but what about Irish immigration in Manchester who also lost their life's in Manchester City centre as if you look at Oxford Road who also lived hard time's too with famine living in poor conditions and those who lived on St Michael Church aka Angel medow too and what about the hard time's at corn exchange which was the hospot for the trades men but also fell in hard times and Salford Quays dockers who had to turned away when their wasn't any work but our city made us a working bee

[@joehowe9795]

such a biased film towards those who provide with god on their side and those who do without and eventually forfeit their lives.

[@hannahdyson7129]

What?!😂😮