Erin Brokovich

The movie started off great and presented the theme of the entire movie and which was that Erin had to look for a job to support her 3 children. While she was out interviewing and looking for a job she is hit by another person and she ends up with injuries and decides to get a lawyer to help her fight the case. The lawyer told her that he was good and that she would have nothing to worry about but when she looses the case she is frustrated and wants answers from her lawyer. (Coincidentally the day she looses the case her baby sitter tells her that she will no longer be able to take care of her children and since she got so much money from winning the case she has nothing to worry about because she can find a better baby sitter. Little did she know that she lost the case.) She calls, calls and continue to call but never gets a call back from her lawyer. She decides to resolve the problem by going down to his office and pretending to be one of his employees. He sees her in the office and immediately recognizes her. He asks her what she was doing and she tells him that since he was not able to call her back she decided to take matters into her own hands and start working for him cause she needs a job. She basically demands a job and when he denies her she negotiates with him. She asks him to give her a chance and at least if it does not work out he can dismiss her. He agrees.

While she is reviewing some of the cases she finds a case that does not make any sense because there is PG&E and doctor bills included and just does not make sense. She asks him if she can investigate the case and he allows her. Well after not showing up to work for some days she returns to find her stuff in a box because she had been fired. She marches right in to her office and demands an explanation since she was doing was her job and he had allowed her to investigate. It is here that she tells him what he had been doing and tells him that she also thinks that she may have discovered a cover up. When I say she demands I mean she was not nice about it, she yelled and barged right in to the office. This is not her best communications skills yet is is exactly what he needs to hear. Yet he tells her that there are proper ways of investigating a case and the way that she went about it is not allowed so her consequence is that she is fired.

Erin is left EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED without a job,no money or food and is desperate because she has 3 kids to feed. After she has been looking for a job, calling around trying to get interviews she gets a call and it's her former boss asking her random questions about the case she was investigating and she is a smart ass with him telling him that she is aware of all the things he has discovered and that was exactly what she was investigating and that maybe if he would have payed attention she could have told him this herself. He goes to her house and ask her questions about the case and eventually rehires her. She makes an excellent point by asking for a raise, benefits and a cell phone because of all the traveling that she will be doing. He agrees because he knows she has an excellent point.

She continues to investigate using ALL her resources through out her investigation. As it turns out, what once may have been her curse while she was working in the office turns out to be her best asset in the field. She showed up to work in nice clothing but not the most professional because some of her outfits were a bit revealing and sexy. The woman in the office did not like her because of this and were rude to her all the time. However, in the field when she is doing her investigation she was able to talk to allot more people if she convinced some of the men.

All these problems seem realistic from a single mom with 3 kids and struggling to find a decent job, to the catty woman she works with, threats she receives for doing the investigation, to using her charming personality to get something she needs.

I think that if I was in her shoes I would have reacted the same exact way. She reminds me of myself. I think Erin's character handles this perfectly because if she was not as blunt, aggressive and assertive she would have not been as successful.

Erin's conflict management style is a competing shark which is exactly what she needs to be. There were times that she yelled at her boss and said somethings that were not appropriate at all but never got fired.

The movie concluded perfectly and Erin continues to work for the same law firm.