Patricia Clarkson She is the actress who always strikes real observation, but she has been a long time since she has played a role in the film on a large scale and stimulates such that. “Night“The film, which opened yesterday, is the drama of the violations, is based on life Laila LidepterThe image of a citizen of his fellow – a wife and mother in Alabama working as a supervisor at the local GOUBYEAR Tyre & Rubber Factory – when she was almost active despite herself.
In Goodyear, Ledbetter began in 1979 on tires on the factory floor. Then the administrative ladder rose, only to continue to decline. Her work record was the best staircase, but she was the only supervisor in the factory that was a woman, who made many people around the nervous. Near the end of the twenty years there, she learned that she was making half of what her male colleagues did. (They were also jumping in front of it without training.) In an attempt to correct this raw deal, she was not looking to stir the bowl – she only wanted a fair shaking for herself and her family.
This is the type of a person (and the cinematic personality) that is inevitably described as “scrappy” and “Fiistey”, but even when you go up to night against the system, there is nothing inflamed or bar. Clarkson plays its role in explosions, with a southern horse directing a flash of reality in her eyes. It shows you a night strength, its daily touch of inner fire, but also its initial quality, and the natural frequency of a person who is not in a width, not thinking about itself as a fighter of justice, especially in moments when it does not seem to be a lot of bullish direction.
For a long time now, movies reported to a specific paradox in it. We see characters such as those played by Russell Crowe in “The Insider” or Al Pacino in “SerPico” or Meryl Streep in “Silkwood”, and it is assumed that the point is that these ordinary people who have become heroes, are seen in circumstances in better versions of themselves. However, most of these films are not erased, as there is a way they have to raise the quality of their Crusader heroes to something special. This is definitely true for Julia Roberts at Erin Brocovich, and this is true for one of them all of them – “Norma Ray”, where Sally Field rose to lead the Textile Federation. In some way, all of these characters become older, and this is part of the glory of Hollywood.
Patricia Clarkson could be older (when I saw her on stage on stage in “A Treetcar Named Desire”, she had a luminous power), but the beauty of her performance in “Lilly” is that she makes Lilly Ledbetter Plainspoken, a woman on her way over her head. It makes it one of us. Night is not out to shake things. When she discovers (through an unknown list in her cabinet) that she got the column on her salary, she visits a local law company and was informed, at first, that she has no case. But because of the care of a lawyer, John Goldfarb (Thomas Sadosky), and she is landing in court, and what appears to be one of those moments of adrenaline, the jury finds the issue of salary in its favor, and give it its damages in millions. We believe: Hallellier!
But part of the “Lilly” message is that it is no longer the 1970s. There are now layers of bureaucracy for companies and politics designed for very brand squash from those whose violations have identified that innovative age earlier. In the movie “Lilly”, goodyear will, of course, appeal the jury’s decision, and despite all the evidence that the decision was canceled. So he returned to one box.
This is still happening. This is the system now. The case, which revolves around the primitive issue of gender equality (i.e. equal wage from equal action), will reach the Supreme Court, where it will be dropped again, but not by Ruth Badr Ginsburg (Ginsburg clips that discuss the Ledbetter case that is linked throughout the film to a kind of smaller sink). It is the media that picks up the story of Lily, making it its general face to the issue. But in Congress, Republicans are classified in the post -Gingrich era on the Scorecard card, where if they do not vote in the “correct” way, they will be deprived of the money they need to secure its re -election. This is also the system.
The “Lilly” case revolves around the retreat to the first box. However, the slow strength of the film is that, as Rachel Feldman, with a confirmation of the details of the process similar to what we saw in “Lincoln” or the documentary “Enron: The smartest men in the room”, the story revolves around how America works now-is not as a noisy political drama, but as ordinary citizens of one students for the basic and wonderful rule. Lily, who has a complex home life, entrenches herself in love with her deadly husband, Charles John Benjamin Hickey, but her son, Philip (Will Polan), is a teenager in Will leaking and giving up the family, which chases night. Charles, along the road, is diagnosed with dangerous skin cancer. The way Clarkson plays, these shocks are very consumed to allow night to become a “non -selfish” activist.
The issue ends in transforming an ethical issue with moral: Did every unequal salary receive a night of discrimination? Or does it have only 180 days of the first salary to make this claim? The entire film jumps through the hoops, and the performance of Clarkson is what makes this work, because the real drama is what Lily feels at every turn – the hope that was built and cut, passion and frustration, at one time, tears were angry. However, Lily does not lose this shine. By the time you go to Washington to pressure what has become the LEDBTER FAIR Pay law for the year 2009 (the first part of the legislation that took place in the law of President Barack Obama), she knows who does that. Every woman in America.
Of course, when I talk about how justice in America is working “Now”, I do not refer to the past four months. This is a different story. However, it cannot be more related to the daily “night” spirit. “The movie is that the ordinary woman – not an icon, and not a fighter of freedom – is exactly what is necessary to make a difference. This is a message that reaches” Mr. Smith goes to Washington “, although it is also a message that was no more than ever before than it is now. With excluding the Akdara in America, we now have a country with 330 million people all of them. We know how to do it anymore.
