living a nightmare to living a dream

Rating: 9/10 (19 September 2010)

Erin Brokovich is a movie based on a true story centered on Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) about how she was living her life as a nightmare to how she was living in a dream that she thought would never happen. Erin was driving her car and got hit by another car and took the man to court. No one in the court house believed her story because they thought she got hit on purpose to get money because she was a single mother that was hurting for money. She went to a law office to get a lawyer who was Ed Masry (Albert Finney). Ed took Erin to court and ended up not winning the case. Erin still was a jobless single mother with three children that could barely afford to pay for her bills and to put food on the table.
At this point of her life she was living in her nightmare. She was very determined as the film went along to find a job as of which she did. She demanded that her Ed gave her a job at his law office which he ended up doing. She started at the law office as his "secretary" filing his papers away and just doing the normal office job. She really didn't know what she was doing and she really wasn't liked in the law office just because of her attitude. Erin was the best looking lady in the office and offended many of the other women in the office because of her clothing. Erin really didn't get any help from anyone else in the office. While Erin was working full time, her next door neighbor watched her children while she was at work. The next door neighbor ended up moving away and a "Harley man" who Erin got a bad vibe from ended up moving into the house next to her. They really didn't get along too well but then became really close as he watched her children while she was at work and pretty much became boyfriend and girlfriend.
When Erin was filing papers at work she came upon a lawsuit for the PG&E water plant. Erin got very involve in this case and spent lots of her own time on it. When Erin knew that PG&E was wrong of what they were doing she had to do something about it. Erin did a lot of prospecting around the town where all of these people were sick. She spent a lot of time with mainly this one family. Ed and Erin ended up going to court with PG&E and ended up winning the case. Ed and Erin won millions of dollars with the case and help out the family to pay for their medical bills. Ed ended up giving Erin a huge bonus of 2 million dollars and Erin could not believe it. At this point of the movie this is where Erin began to live her life like it was a dream. She probably would have never thought that she would have ever had this kind of money.
Film elements that contributed to the movie were dialogue and motif. The film element dialogue contributes to the theme through characterization. Dialogue is important to the theme of the movie because it shows how Erin was characterized throughout the movie. Dialogue shows what type of character Erin was in the movie by explaining her attitude and her willing to work for what she needed to do to better herself and her family. Motif contributes to the theme of the movie because it has a recurring element that has symbolic significance which would consist of Erin throughout the entire film. Erin would be the recurring element of the film that has a huge symbolic significance in the film.
The film showed how Erin was a go for it woman. She was at rock bottom of her life and worked so hard to get to the part of her life to where she thought she was living in a dream.