North Country

Liz and I saw this one down in Indy. There were only 2 other people in there besides us and it was cold. Even I was a little chilly in there. I was really hoping this movie would turn out well because it seemed like it had so much potential to be good. I'd have to say that I wasn't dissapointed. I'd rack this one up as another great performance by Charlize Theron. She does good work. Even though I wasn't a big fan of the movie, Monster, you have to admit she did an amazing job in it. There were also great supporting roles by Frances McDormand, Sean Bean and Woody Harrelson. The basic plot of this film follows the landmark case against sexual harrassment in the work place. Josey is basicaly a single mother (recently just got out of a physically abusive relationship) who is trying to make it on her own. She ends up moving back in with her parents and getting a job at the steel mine where almost everybody in town works. Her father is definitely not happy about her working there and many of the works treat the women employees horribly. Josey eventually goes to court and the other women band together with her to stand up for their rights. At one point during a union meeting Josey's father gets up and says something about what's going on and it really makes you think. He defines their fellow women employees as wives and mothers which kinda shocks the guys a bit and made me think just a little bit differently about the whole situation. Not that I was in favor of the treatment or anything beforehand. It was sort of like in A Time to Kill when they're talking about this horrible thing that had happened to a little girl and at the end of the story they say it happened to a black girl. Everyone was so astonished because the whole time they had been imagining a white girl. This may not make much sense, but check it out sometime if you're in the mood. It deals with race relations. I'm going to give this movie a thumbs up. We'll have to wait and see if I get yelled at by the Funlumbus contingent yet again for a movie decision.