"Well, I think I look nice. And as long as I have one ass instead of two I'll wear what I like if that's all right with you? You might want to re-think those ties."
~ Erin Brockovich
The first thing I did after this movie was if this movie was to google about the P&G lawsuit and to find out it was indeed an actual, ordinary lawsuit in 1990s ; but the thing that makes it extraordinary is a feisty, weird, hot headed middle aged women. When she won a beauty peagent at an young age she believed she could conquer the world but is now unemployed, broke, divorced mother of three. When she finally do manage to get her job back ( which she lost due to maternity leave) in law firm she makes sure she gives it her best shot. She is a women who speaks her mind and blurts back if someone questions her choice of clothes. The fact that she is undereducated and is a normal clerk doesn't undermines her hope of doing something big.She delves herself into paperwork to find out about an hitherto unnoticed connection between increased health problems surrounding a company. She undertakes an independent investigation, collects evidence, gives it all her sweat and time to deduce that this giant company is unlawfully using a harmful radioisotope causing malignancy and serious diseases among people in neighboring residence. She talks to people day in and day out, adding more plaintiffs, listening to people empathetically and deciding to fight for them not as lawyer but as one among them. She is emotional yet manipulative, unsure yet unstoppable, nervous yet undaunted. When lawyers pointed out gliches in her case telling her she doesn't have the phone nos. of all 400 plaintiffs she asks them whose no. do they need as she knows the name, address,phone no., history, diseases, family details of all those people by heart. She worked relentlessly unless the people got justice. The case was settled in 1996 for US$333 million, the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit in U.S. history. All of this was possible because of a crazy adamant women,who was far from being perfect; but just didn't give up on her dream and proved it that to accomplish the perfect perfecrion, little imperfection helps.
~ Erin Brockovich
The first thing I did after this movie was if this movie was to google about the P&G lawsuit and to find out it was indeed an actual, ordinary lawsuit in 1990s ; but the thing that makes it extraordinary is a feisty, weird, hot headed middle aged women. When she won a beauty peagent at an young age she believed she could conquer the world but is now unemployed, broke, divorced mother of three. When she finally do manage to get her job back ( which she lost due to maternity leave) in law firm she makes sure she gives it her best shot. She is a women who speaks her mind and blurts back if someone questions her choice of clothes. The fact that she is undereducated and is a normal clerk doesn't undermines her hope of doing something big.She delves herself into paperwork to find out about an hitherto unnoticed connection between increased health problems surrounding a company. She undertakes an independent investigation, collects evidence, gives it all her sweat and time to deduce that this giant company is unlawfully using a harmful radioisotope causing malignancy and serious diseases among people in neighboring residence. She talks to people day in and day out, adding more plaintiffs, listening to people empathetically and deciding to fight for them not as lawyer but as one among them. She is emotional yet manipulative, unsure yet unstoppable, nervous yet undaunted. When lawyers pointed out gliches in her case telling her she doesn't have the phone nos. of all 400 plaintiffs she asks them whose no. do they need as she knows the name, address,phone no., history, diseases, family details of all those people by heart. She worked relentlessly unless the people got justice. The case was settled in 1996 for US$333 million, the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit in U.S. history. All of this was possible because of a crazy adamant women,who was far from being perfect; but just didn't give up on her dream and proved it that to accomplish the perfect perfecrion, little imperfection helps.
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