Critical Review Of The Film Erin Brockovich
The absence of unique storylines, plotlines, and imaginative discoursed have transformed the American film industry into a maker of shallow well-known intrigue films bested in their preposterousness and absence of profundity just by made-for-television motion pictures. While it has been said that our most treasured stories originate from reality, the dinginess of the cutting edge world seldom fits into the firmly managed restrictions encompassing standard American screenwriting. This movie review will be divided into two paragraphs describing the events of the movie, one paragraph defining the four concepts of gender commonly depicted in the film, two paragraphs of analysis of how the concepts are shown, and a concluding paragraph.
With this admittedly jaded viewpoint, I sat into this film hoping for the best, but expected far worse. To my pleasant surprise, it turned out to be neither. Critically acclaimed director, Steven Soderbergh (of Traffic, Logan Lucky, Unsane etc.), manages to pull off an amazingly interesting film, with snappy writing, clever casting, and plenty of positive energy, that do not fall into a clichéd sentimentalism. Although the film's end comes as very predictable, the strong message of female resourcefulness and the power of the person (man or woman) manage to avoid promoting a ham-fisted, story of moral empowerment.
Erin Brockovich investigates this emotional procedure of calling and employment in the true story of an unemployed mother (Julia Roberts) of three who has been divorced, twice. She contracts Ed Masry (Albert Finney), a moderately aged legal advisor close to retirement of his not exceptionally celebrated career, to argue her body of evidence against a reckless driver who collided with her vehicle at an intersection. Subsequent to losing in court because of her utilizing foul language, Erin bulldozes her way into working at Masry's Los Angeles law firm. Her recklessness, foul language, and the choice of apparel promptly make her quality a nuisance in the workplace. One day when she is setting up a file for a pro-bono real estate account, Erin coincidentally runs over records of Pacific Gas and Electric's poisoning of the water supply of a little community close to their plant. While George (Aaron Eckhart), her biker neighbour, benevolently deals with her three children, she meets a huge number of low-income families who have been harrowed with dangerous infections. With an enthusiasm for equity and profound sympathy for these casualties of corporate malpractice, Erin wins their trust and vows to get them to pay for their torment.
The concepts of gender that was commonly prevalent in this film were: Gender Discrimination (action that specifically denies opportunities, privileges, or rewards to a person (or a group) because of gender), Gender Roles (behaviors, values, and attitudes that a society considers appropriate for both male and female), Gender Equity (fairness of treatment for women and men, according to their respective needs), and Gender Division of Labour (allocation of different jobs or types of work to women and men).
Roberts has experienced issues in the past showing range in films because of ill-fitting, mediocre roles. However, with Brockovich, she can utilize her regular appeal as a support, instead of a brace for her dramatic talents. Roberts takes off to another level of achievement, combined with Soderbergh's fine depiction of a regular workers world dependent to make the most out of each dollar. In a similarly fine supporting role as an unpleasant Los Angeles attorney, veteran entertainer Albert Finney shares a superb role with Roberts. Their communications are brilliantly mind boggling minutes between two individuals working for a typical reason. Soderbergh doesn't attempt to legitimize their association with lost sexual fascination or a defensive relationship. He puts together their relationship with respect to earned trust and common regard, even when Erin is subjected to various insults and harsh decisions based on the androcentric culture practiced in the society which is not regularly found in on-screen collaborations between more established men and more women in the corporate America. Her romantic counterpart, finely played by Aaron Eckhart, appears, however doesn't rule or divert from the principle storyline of the film. Indeed, Robert's relationship to Eckhart's character gets fairly left by the wayside, in one of the movies hardly any inadequacies- being a household role model for her kids.
As the film advances, the end turns out to be somewhat self-evident, yet not frustrating. As can be anticipated, the stone that minor Brockovich flings winds up bringing down the goliath corporate machine and a positive closure settle the image. The task was not easily won, however, and the hardships where presented without the use of tired clichés. Rather that resorting to these trite tactics in order to spice up the dramatic tension and raise the emotional build, the film utilizes the abrasive outcomes of the story to keep the activity pushing ahead. Soderbergh figures out how to maintain a strategic distance from every one of the traps that plague run of the mill triumph over catastrophe stories, and produce a pleasingly position, yet capably expressed production.
Erin Brockovich has a good story, filled with dramatic ups and downs. In addition, the film takes the extra step to create complex characters with depth and a range that goes beyond that of many films these days. Julia Roberts perfectly portrays a working class woman who uses her sexuality without falling into the charming/trashy dichotomy. Erin Brockovich shows the strength it takes for a woman to stand up for a cause and be noticed in a man's world. That Brockovich (and Roberts) would come out a winner could be seen from the very beginning, but the process, rather than the result, became the most important thing.
