Analysis of Erin Brockovich

Movie Analysis of Erin Brockovich

After viewing the film I realized that Erin’s public self was pretty much the same as her private self. The reasoning behind this is .that she treated Ed, her boss in the same manner as she treated George, her boyfriend. Erin didn’t take crap from anybody but at times she did let her aggressions take over. Most of the time these hostilities would lead her in contempt, but in the long run usually worked out for the best. I will admit, it was a good way to get her point across at times but she could have approached some of these situations a little differently. Take, for example, the night Erin met George. Even though George was being inappropriately loud, she could have asked him nicely to be quiet instead of chewing him out angrily, even after he tried repeatedly to apologize to her.

These shoulds and overgeneralization fallacies turn up many times in the movie. Another example of this is point where Ed takes on a partner for advice and help with costs on the PG&E cases. When Erin walks in and finds out, she immediately feels offended and flies off the handle when she could have used a “pillow method” so to speak, to look at the situation from Ed’s point of view and realize that