The feminist struggles of the Josey Aimes affair
Scenario and realization: Niki Caro
With: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean
Josey Aimes carries on his shoulders several stigmas of what can undergo the women. Daughter mother at the end of adolescence (it turns out she was raped), she is rejected by the entire community of her small town of Minnesota. In adulthood, again alone to raise her two children (because her partner was beating her), she returns to her hometown but can not count on the help of her parents, because her father condescends to treat her (he thinks especially that if she was beaten, she must be unfaithful). His only solution to get by: find a job at the iron mine.
Only, the environment is essentially masculine. Women suffer the worst humiliations, insults, dirt, violence, always on the limits of the bearable. However, they accept in silence to keep their jobs, in the indifference of both employers and the union. Only, again, Josey is not going to let it go, and will attack the mine on trial.
Although she sometimes tends to force too much, the New Zealand director Niki Caro signs a sincere, hard and catchy film, which constantly invites the viewer to ask questions. Committed, poignant, this work openly defends the rights of women.
