Erin is a rare type of person among women, rare in its publicity, uncompromising, aggressiveness and high self-confidence, which is very desirable and amazing. Her dress highlights her figure and attracts opinions from female colleagues. She don't care because her mother likes to be pretty; she runs around outside, does surveys to collect information, interviews possible victims, and when she comes back, she finds that she has been raped She was fired, yelled at the boss and slammed the door; she collected reliable evidence, and the boss wanted to work with her after he found out, and she immediately bargained for better compensation for herself; during the meeting, she noticed that the other party, as a professional, was half-hearted towards her. Talking about the contempt of the work results of the monk, she blurted out the background of the case that she knew by heart, and made a wonderful response; she saw the partner and the boss have a separate meeting to throw herself away, question the boss face to face, and strive for a position that matches her efforts... ...and so on, her publicity, continuous expansion, and even angrily counterattack, are based on a belief: I am worthy. By extension, I am so good, of course, I must be respected, paid, valued, and treated fairly. If you can't do it, it's your fault, and I have the right and responsibility to remind you to pay attention.
Of course, she also has many other (so-called) qualities that are common to women, being attentive, a good listener, empathic, tenacious, idealistic, approachable and easy to trust and open up to work with. (I think this is a quality that all human beings, regardless of gender, should strive to cultivate. It is not mandatory to achieve all of them, but there are always two or three.) These kinds of things also directly contributed to the final favorable judgment. What these qualities have in common is that people have to put in a lot of emotion, endure all kinds of grinding, consume themselves, suppress self-expression to ease the pressure and tension of others, and do not benefit themselves and others. In the end, the glory belongs to you (orally, and probably no one knows except yourself), the end. If this is placed in a career recruitment, it means that there are only job responsibilities and obligations, no wages and benefits, nothing but false titles, and even false titles are not obtained. It is a fraud! In any religious story, it is the one who is sacrificed, but in the story, it will be sanctified, but in reality, there is only long patience until death.
Such qualities go against the nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. Although they are essential to maintaining order and developing civilization in the long run, not many people do so voluntarily. Except for a few noble people, either acquired or innate, the pursuit of such qualities is lifelong. How are these qualities bound to women? At least, modern society generally believes that women seem to be more likely to have these qualities than men, and they are more likely to shape and promote this type of female role model. Simple, pick the persimmon softly. The men who occupy most of the wealth, occupy the dominant position, and claim to hold the final interpretation of civilization, punish the disobedient women, and deceive the women who cannot be independent. The mermaids who turned into bubbles are addicted to the emotion of self-sacrifice; the wives and mothers who withered in the housework and childcare deceive themselves with such lies; the female employees who are marginalized in the workplace, who are chatting and decorating their appearance, Accept or leave. Can't help but think of Beauvoir's famous saying that women are not born, but formed. The social structural system is so oppressive that the individual is not to be blamed. But as individuals, we still have something to do. Aware of the existence of oppression, don't accept your fate, let alone be an accomplice. Abandoning modesty and silence is a virtue, and it is a requirement for the strong. The weak need to speak up and fight for their own rewards.
Thinking back to the monologue-like dialogue at the beginning of the film, we learn that Erin had to quit his job and go home because his spouse didn't fulfill his parenting obligations and wanted to take care of the children on his own. Her actual work experience is almost zero, the interview is almost awkward, and she is doomed to fail. A single woman with three children, double-digit savings, countless bills to pay, and no car or home loan. Although she is very good, it is hard to imagine any company that will provide her with a job opportunity that can support a family of four. After all, such an empty resume is not convincing at all. She may be able to start with some temporary labor, struggling to make ends meet. Gradually, she started a business after accumulating a little bit. With her character, she should be able to run a well-off life. In reality, the ideal life route is roughly the same. After all, in the past 30 years, there has only been one time from a failed car accident lawsuit to a miracle that made two million. It is more of a person with a weak personality, who is helpless.
Women who choose to enter marriage and have children will always encounter conflicts between family and career. Persist in work after marriage, keep in touch with the society, gain a little sense of value, and maintain a sense of security, but must bear both internal and external labor pressures, and work seamlessly around the clock. Change is too risky. What about women? This is not a problem that such women have to solve by themselves, but a problem that the whole society has to face together. Maternity protection, sports children, and re-employment policies are inclined...
There are two things that basically only women encounter at work. One is "I have a proud chest, so he asked me to check all the materials" (although these materials are public resources and can be accessed by themselves, but there are too many local staff with chicken feathers as arrows). The other is that, obviously at work, but the communication object has atrophied eyes and a suspicious behavior. This second is an uncomfortable obscenity. I don’t know if there will be sexual harassment in the next second. I just want to finish work and leave the scene (of course, in the movie, A little trick to play, the editing gives the impression that it is actually to reverse). The results of the two situations can be said to be diametrically opposed, the former brings "convenience" and the latter hinders work, but the core is the same, both objectification of women and no respect for individuals. In the same work situation, it is obviously all about making money to create value. Why do some men look at women as if they have a layer of automatic trigger filters, blocking their status and occupation, and only treat them as sexual resources? When I think of Chizuru Ueno's words, the general idea is that men are not born this way. They define themselves by taking women as others, by objectifying women and simplifying their various parts into sexual impulse stimulators to confirm their identity as men.
The clue that a 250,000 ordinary land rights dispute evolved into a 330 million sky-high compensation case was a detail that Erin discovered and insisted on tracing as a layman that went against common sense. Medical bills and real estate documents were mixed up. And this, to an experienced firm colleague, doesn't matter, or even a silly question from Erin's inexperienced clerical work. In addition, by comparing the stylization of Teresa from the orthodox law school, the advantages and charm of Erin in investigation and evidence collection, communication with people and trust are highlighted. We don't know if Theresa was in the prototype, but it's a fact of contacting so many people, collecting so much information, and getting key documents that involve the power company's headquarters to greatly increase compensation. Others' work relies on pre-professional training and rational calculation, but she relies on intuition, communication, connection and heart. Experience can be cultivated, but empathy, affinity, convincing charm is a kind of temperament, not to mention the value of a heart that adheres to justice and conscience, and the powerful power brought by its beliefs.
I can't help but ask, whether the professional training and theoretical reserves required by various industries sometimes raise the threshold of the industry in vain and block out the truly suitable people? Professionals engaged in a certain job, in the routine formed day after day, do they have their own walls in their thinking, and do not find that their habitual shortcuts have turned into detours? Does the contemporary fine division of labor limit people's vision?
Bizarre stories have a quality, chance. Like this legendary case, there are too many what ifs to say, one less, and it may not have such a good ending. Strangely enough, the big company just bribed that George to make a threatening call to Erin, feigning it. I thought they would also threaten Ed (the head of the firm, boss Erin), that the counter-litigation firm would come to surround Wei to save Zhao, or they would simply break down the plaintiff's family and buy some weak-willed ones first, and the plaintiffs would naturally collapse.
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