From my perspective, Erin is a feminist, a tough woman and a human-right campaigner.
At first, Erin had a really failing life. It seems that she was a loser literally. She had been married twice. She was a single mother with three kids. She only had 16 dollars left in her bank account. She didn’t get former college education and she even did not have a job. When she came back, holding the kids, only to find a cockroach in the sink. She got hit by a car, she lost in the court mostly because her uncontrolled temper. What a poor lady! She was fucked by the awful life.
But everything changed when she was in the most terrible moment in her life. We must admit that Erin is really a “bitch”, a cute “bitch”. She came back to the law firm and forced the lawyer to give her a job to compensate for her. Given her brutal behaviors, the lawyer offered her the job out of kindness. And everything began to get better.
Erin found the source of funds to raise her kids and herself. She found her beloved, George. And she even found a way to be independent, to be respective and to be contributing. In the fight with PG&E, she sacrificed most of her time with her kids and George. She almost put her everything to this case. She was too busy collecting evidence to ignore her sons. She was willing to get the frog body in the poisonous water. She was considerate and patient when interviewing each poor family. She even did not give up when receiving threat from PG&E.
From the beginning to the end, Erin is a fighter, fighting with her life, the lawyer, Theresa, PG&E. It is her persistence, courage and personalities that helped her overcome all the difficulties. I remembered that the quarrel between her and the lawyer. She replied “fuck you back” when the lawyer said “fuck you”. So when life fucks her, she always fucks back. So she “fucked” the lawyer, Theresa, PG&E and her previous terrible life. If she bent to the life, she would not have today’s life, job, respect and love. Most importantly, without her such personalities, Ed Masry might have given up at the beginning and might not have many clues and so much support from local people. The man is not so aggressive as Erin, so he needs Erin, needs a strong assistance to push him to move forward.
All in all, I really appreciate people like Erin in reality. She is a “vulgar bitch” who does not respect the common rules, not care others’ thoughts and not fear power and trouble.
By Wenhui