Nice

Russell 2022-01-06 08:01:59

I once saw an interview with Sialon and mentioned why she played such a female mine worker who appealed for sexual harassment. She said that she never felt that her beauty could bring any advantages, but after reading such a script, when she went to such a place, she found that women are actually insecure anyway. Moreover, when she knew that the director was also a woman, she agreed.

The film reveals layer by layer, and you discover that a beautiful single mother who strives for the equal status of women workers is already a victim of this patriarchal society. She is not unbearable, but there is an end to her tolerance. People are awesome. It is also the familiar atmosphere in this movie.
When the court debate finally cruelly stripped the truth about her first child at the age of 16, everyone was moved. Although this is a scene that can make people cry both in and out of the play, there are also absurdities in thinking about it in the depths - why must wait for a woman and tell the truth about being raped to relieve the suspicion in others' hearts ? Why do we have to sprinkle salt on the wound in order to make people trust? This is what makes me feel very uncomfortable. Of course, it is not the fault of the movie, but the real fault of the movie.

Looking down from the camera, the mine is a boring, huge, and dirty place. On the surface, the harassment of women is nothing but pornographic jokes. But the point is that everyone thinks this is the most normal thing. So this woman's resistance must be difficult-she has to fight the well-known "normal" things.

Nice movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Cyrus 2022-04-23 07:03:22

    Just to see Amber Heard

  • Adell 2022-04-21 09:02:51

    Although the life experience of the first child and the sexual harassment encountered in the miners' work have an antecedent relationship with the slander of the protagonist's personality, in the process of the two events, the power is often strayed, and none of the main lines are weakened. The rest can only see the structure of the lawsuit, but the results and significance of this type of film were already expected early.

North Country quotes

  • [first lines]

    Josey Aimes: [testifying] Lady, you sit in your nice house, clean floors, your bottled water, your flowers on Valentine's Day, and you think you're tough? Wear my shoes. Tell me tough. Work a day in the pit, tell me tough.

    Lawyer: I'm sure we're all sufficiently impressed, Mrs. Aimes.

    Josey Aimes: There's no "Mrs." here.

  • Hank Aimes: [to Josey upon announcing her desire to work at the mine] You wanna be a lesbian, now?

    Karen Aimes: [innocently] *I* wanna be a lesbian.