Paying attention to detail can pay off

Rating: 10/10 (22 March 2015)

Erin Brockovich is a movie based on a true story. Julia Roberts played the part of Erin really well. Erin is the single mother struggling to make ends meet. She's been divorced two times and has three kids. She is in desperate need of a job before she goes bankrupt. She walks into this attorney's office and basically begs for a job. Despite her style of dress and outspoken personality, she gets a job as a file clerk. While performing her job, she stumbles upon some paperwork that seem odd to her and so begins her quest for her investigating work to find out why people are getting sick and why the Gas and Electric Company are paying for their medical bills. Although she is not trained in legal work or has any kind of degree. Erin is very street smart and people actually trust her. She goes on against the biggest company in California and almost brings down the company with the biggest lawsuit in the history of California. The little train that could.
The theme of the story is determination. Erin, an uneducated single mother of three. Who needed to go above and beyond in her job in order to retain it so she could pay her bills, was not going to let anyone intimidate her and call her stupid. The more people made fun of her or her work, the more determined she felt. She also had a sense of compassion for the "little" people who had been lied to. These people were dying early, kids were having chronic illness all the meanwhile they were being told that there was nothing wrong with the water they were drinking. She felt the need to help represent these people.
Julia Robert's role as Erin Brockivich was outstanding. I loved the part where they met with Hinkley's attorney's for PG&E and the main attorney was about to drink the water and Erin tells her that they had brought that specially for them from Hinsley's well and she puts it down and would not have a drink. This tell you that they knew that the chromium was poisonous to people but they were trying to sweep it under the rug. Overall, the movie has a great plot to it. Julia Roberts, witty, trashy, bite me attitude combined with a sense of responsibility to the people of Hinsley and her children make this a movie to remember and makes you want to go out there and make something of yourself and not just push some papers around but really make a difference. It doesn't matter if you have a degree or not.