I saw a movie yesterday called "North Country", starring Charlize Theron as Josey..
It's inspired by a true story that took place somewhere in the late 70s, when they started to hire women to work in iron mines. (first woman was hired in 73), by 1984, the male to female ratio was 30 to 1!
You can imagine the range of humiliation this woman had to go through, what surprises she found in her locker, what drawings she had to clear off the walls.. The name-calling in public, the finger pointing even from women!
Her history wasn't that happy either, she has 2 children, the first is a rape product, when she was 16.. the 2nd is a product of a marriage to an abusive husband.
At that time, there was no law in the US against sexual harrasment, so a woman abused at her work place should swallow it 'sec'.
She wanted to make a living, instead, she made history!
I won't spoil the ending, you have to see the movie! :)
6 Comments:
anything with Charlize Theron is a must see... nuff said...
Been meaning to see it. Like godfather up there said, Charlize is pretty good.
On a different note, good to have another medic amongst us, we're taking over the saudi blogs heh..
Sounds like a good movie. Im not into these sort of movies, I'll wait till its out on DVD and watch it.
Charlize Theron is so cute!! And I love movies based on true stories, those really touch, I'll try to look for North Counrty next time I get a movie, it really sounds interesting! Thanks for the review ;)
P.S. How'd you do the label thing? Me want!
Didn't like it too much. Granted, Charlize Theron offered some top notch eye candy, but it's hard to be interested in a movie revolving around women's rights and mining.
no wonder you put that post under anonymous ;) I guess that's y they chose Charlize, they would take it for granted: men would watch the girl, girls would watch the movie!
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