Great American woman: Erin Brokovitch

Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2014)

I had watched this movie in the year of launching, 2000. I just watched it today again. I realized the real Erin as a waiter in a fast food restaurant right in the beginning of it. She is a beautiful woman just like Julia Roberts but the type of beauty that Julia brought to the film was one that comes from an attachment to some values that are part of American history and society. Julia played Erin character in a way that gave it a freshness and vitality that were necessary to show a story that reminded us a bible tale of a small David that faces the enormous Golias. In fact, the main character had to face two dangerous environments: big corporations and law courts. Erin Brokovitich fought for justice to a small community of residents in California that live closer of a Power Plant that poured the poisonous Chromiun 6 in the water in order to cool its generator discharging the contaminated water into the underground water sources. The contamination took a tool and more than 600 people got sick. That's a real story.