If this court settlement happened in 1984, then why did they keep showing them watching the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearing on television? I thought that Clarence Thomas mess occurred in the early 90s.
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It's something closer to the beginning of the 90s.
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I thought in one of the opening scenes they showed the year as 1987.
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not a mistake.
the film is BASED on a story that occured in the early 80s. because it's a fictional account, the writer may use creative license to mold the story in a way that creates a certain feel to it. the movie is set in, i believe 1989 and the Anita Hill hearings took place in i believe 1991. Again, since this is fictional, the writer chose to use the anita hill story in a time prior to when it actually happened. no big deal. the writer obviuosly found relevance of the anita hill story to North Country and decided to juxtapose the two for more meaning.
i don't wanna get too deep here but the writer was possibly making a statement about the anita hill hearings in that he/she felt that anita hill went through similar circumstances to what Josie went though regarding the "standing up for her rights even though she has little chance of winning in this 'man's world' that we live in." now, i don't remember what the result of the anita hill hearings were but i think Hill's accusations were dismissed. Josie might have suffered the same fate if it wasn't found out that she was raped as a teenager. is it possible that Anita Hill's accusations had merit? i think the writer's answer to that is "yes".
I find that the false time setting of the movie ruins it, in many respects. Are we to believe that people actually acted this way in 1991? No way. By that time, everyone in the work place was so afraid of sexual harassment they would never have said or done any of those things.
shareI think the movie showed how, despite the threat of sexual harassment claims, the company culture can still pose a great obstacle for that type of legal action. Sure, there are laws out there to protect us, but if there aren't people out there to help enforce those laws what good are they?
Also, I feel that if you're concerns are with the time setting and how it affects the realism of the story, then you're really missing the point altogether.
Wow. To people who think sexual harassment was eradicated by the 90's: you are dead wrong. Many horrifying things still happen to women today in the workplace.
While the movie takes some creative license with the actual story the real case began when Lois Jensen filed a claim in 1988. The class action suit involving the rest of the women miners didn't truly begin until 1991. The case went through trials and appeal and didn't actually settle until 1998. Women were still be harassed in the 90's and the women were said to have watched the Anita Hill case closely, and some saw the hearings as a wake up call to act (because some hadn't joined in the litigation). So the time period is correct.
Taht's not true, the suit was filed in 1984, but she'd been working there since 1975. It took 14 years to settle, true, but the timeline for the movie is still unrealistic, in my opinion.
shareExactly, it doesn't work. By the time this movie was set in, stried had been made protecting women in the workplace. It didn't make sense...and just so the story could coincide with Anita Hill? Lame reason to shift the entire timeline for the movie.
shareI agree with why they put that image on the tv screen. Another example of women standing up for themselves, which was fairly new. The real case took 20+ years to win a meager settlement from the mine company's corp of lawyers, so they could have used any example up to 1999.
Its not a good comparison, as hill was just trying to send a warning about thomas's character before they voted on his lifetime supreme seat. Hill didn't suffer the same kind of harassment as in the movie. Whats ironic about that hearing is chairman biden and his senate committee heard hill's testimony in private and decided it didn't rise to a level that should deny thomas an up or down vote on the senate floor, so they voted unanimously to send his nomination to its last step before making him a supreme. Then, nina tutwieler of NPR interviewed hill and raised a loud alarm, insinuating the all-male club was at it again - trivializing wimmin and not being sensitive enough about what hill went through. (Hill admitted to not being damaged from her experience with thomas). All of the magazines run by women made a loud enough noise critical of biden's committee and selection process. This scared biden so much that he called it back to his committee and started hill's testimony over again, but this time in front of the national lens and with a carefully crafted set of questions. Likewise, the repubs had their own second act set because they could sense the critical vibes women were making about their horny nominee judge's character. In the end, the charge still didn't rise to a high enough level to deny him a full senate vote - but it almost did. If the second 'harrassed' woman witness they found was allowed to testify, then it would have backed up hill and changed a he-said, she said standoff to a disqualification for horny thomas. The repubs applied their best intimidation tactic on that poor woman and succeeded in scaring her off from testifying.
Hill appeared to be the most truthful. given how the "long-dong silver" wannabee's (his stated alter ego in porn) choice in a large breasted wifey fit hill's testimony about thomas telling her thats what he liked in a woman.
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Yeah, because a man liking large breasted women proves a lot. Good thinking.
I was annoyed that the clothing and hairstyles were closer to the 1984 timeline of the actual events the film was based on than the setting for the movie. It drove me nuts the whole time.
shareThe rural parts of America are always 7-10 years behind the latest fashions. It worked for me.
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