Erin Brockovich
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In the movie Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts plays a poor single divorced mother of three children, who is not very educated but has a desire to fight for the rights of others. Erin Brockovich is an inspirational woman who is determined to fight for her citizens. In the movie, Erin is used to the constant rejection of job applications due to her lack of qualifications and her sense of fashion by wearing short skirts, skimpy tops and she was classified as a sex symbol.
Julia was hired in the legal office of Ed Masry. During Erins routine job of maintaining files, she comes across an important real estate document. This real estate document said that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) was going to buy this family’s house to build a freeway ramp to their company. For some reason, this document intrigued Erin, and so she went to investigate it. She went and talked to the family whose house was in the process of being bought by PG&E and realize that this family had numerous medical problems. Erin went and investigated some water documents about PG&E, and what she uncovered was a massive water contamination cover-up. This family had no idea that their illnesses were the result of water contamination or even that their illnesses had anything in common.
PG&E paid them to see a doctor, and PG&E paid the doctor to say that their illnesses had nothing in common. In fact, all these illness were caused by Hexavalent poising. The power plant has been letting this highly toxic chromium seep into the ground, affecting the water which the inhabitants of the town use. The plant had been telling the townspeople that they should not worry about a little chromium, despite the high incidence of cancer and other illnesses which flourished in Hinckley. Erin was not satisfied with what theyve been telling people in that community and as a result is determined to fight because her belief is that those individuals deserve respect and a better life with their families.
Erin is intrigued by this situation so she takes matter in her own hands and starts to take some of the files home to study. Night after night she tries to dig up evidence that she can use in order to help her case. In order for her to get view points on this issue, she went to disturb local university scientists for expert opinions. She was persistent to get answers on why the case had been overlooked. Erin took responsibility of venturing out to talk