female consciousness

Julia 2022-03-18 09:01:03

A woman with three children, two older than eight or nine and younger less than a year old, lived in a house full of cockroaches, bill after bill.

I was thinking, what about her husband? What about her parents and in-laws? These don't seem to be mentioned in the play. It seems that it is rare to see a woman living with three children like this in China. If there is, everyone will classify this woman as an outlier.

The woman in the play, a former beauty queen, forced to live by bills, is a sexy beauty with three babies. Step by step, relying on our own efforts, we ushered in the development of our career. Never compromise is her mentality when facing difficulties in life and setbacks in her career, and it is also the name of this movie.

In this film, I saw the shadow of inspiration and the gradual awakening of American female consciousness. We also saw the differences between China and the United States. In the 1950s in the United States, inhumane power companies dumped sewage containing carcinogens into groundwater, making hundreds of people sick in polluted areas. At the same time, women can choose to work independently while raising their children.

The United States has gone through nearly a hundred years of environmental governance, improved systems, and women's pursuit of their own rights, and now has a more complete system, welfare, and a more liberal ideology. The good of the United States is also developed step by step.

China only established a country and developed its economy in the 1950s. Now that our economy is developing rapidly, the problems that the United States highlighted 70 or 80 years ago have also become prominent. Such as environmental pollution, with the improvement of education level, women's awareness of independence is also prominent.

However, now is a process of globalization, and the speed of dissemination of information is unimaginable. In this society that still exists, women cannot go to their original families to celebrate the Spring Festival after marriage, women have no home after divorce, women should get married, have children, and depend on men, how should we understand our marriage, career, and family? How do we become an independent social woman?

Never compromise is spiritual. If we want to truly improve the status of women and their treatment, do we need government and institutional support?

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Erin Brockovich quotes

  • Ed Masry: You're emotional, you're erratic. You say anything, you make this personal, and it isn't.

    Erin Brockovich: Not personal? That is my work! My sweat! My time away from my kids! If that's not personal, I don't know what is.

    [starts to cough]

    Ed Masry: Hey, come on. Come on. Go home. Get well. Because you're no good to me sick. I need you, all right? This case needs you.

  • Donna Jensen: [after a meeting] Oh, I made some bundt cake. Let me get some coffee, too.

    Ed Masry: [Gets up to leave] Sorry, we have to be getting back...

    Erin Brockovich: [under her breath in Ed's ear] Have a fuckin' cup of coffee, Ed.

    Ed Masry: [to Donna] Coffee would be great, thanks.

    Pete Jensen: [after Ed sits back down next to him] My wife makes great bundt cake.

    Ed Masry: I love bundt cake.