Any other men feel ashamed while watching this?

I'm more ashamed to be a human being.

Yes, I felt ashamed for having rented the film and watched it in its entirety. What an incredible load of dribble ... and how about a waste of a cast? Gee wiz, it was straight-to-tv, standard oppressed woman fights the narrow-minded, arrogant corporation stuff. In all seriousness, men can do horrible things to women and the true story behind this regurgitation of a film, no doubt, holds similar tales of woe, but this movie is just lame. LAME. I'm sure there was an attempt to give this film some subtlety by making the characters have interesting histories and making their stories multi-layered and all that sort of jazz, but what they ended up with just struck me as lazy rubbish. The highlight of the lowlights for me was the whole story-line involving the father. Holy moly, how much of a backflip can they do? Did they not think that we noticed how much of a shocking bloke the Dad was? Did they think we would see him stop being a prick of a man and become a saint in two seconds and not say, "Um, that's a little unlikely"? He hated his daughter for 15 years for very little and then he suddenly has a rush of the Hollywood hero because his wife leaves him ... righto!!!! This is a man who watched his daughter treated like a particularly vulgar spider in a Mortein factory and did nothing but continue to hate her. Don't you think it'd be more likely that he would then begin to disregard his wife, rather than doing a huge about face and start hugging his daughter in the kitchen?

I don't feel ashamed for things that I haven't done, as such, I didn't feel ashamed while watching fictional characters commit awful sins on a fictional character. I could have been more emotionally involved and felt a lot more empathy for the characters had the whole affair not been terribly cliched. It is the people behind this film that should be ashamed, for it is they that belittled the factual story behind this movie.

I hated it, you liked it, fair enough. We all take different things from films and stories in general. It struck me as a TV movie, but a particularly weak one where the director was banking on the willing submission to silliness and thoughtless emotion by the viewer to make it acceptable. Your crying at the film shows that you made an emotional connection to it, I didn't feel anything other than bored throughout it, so I've made an attempt to understand why that was so. My thoughts in my earlier post are some of the conclusions reached in my ponderings. It doesn't mean I'm right and you're wrong I suppose, and my views may have been overly aggressive, but that is just the way I saw the movie.

I still don't in any way feel ashamed from watching the film. I was nine years old and living in a different country when the story of this movie was concluded, so I could in no way effect the people portrayed in it. I am the sort of person who would step in to make sure people aren't being treated unfairly, so my conscience is clean. Maybe you feel that there have been moments in your life when you could have done more to help oppressed women from your evil co-workers, I, however, don't feel that way. As such I can happily state that I, in no way, felt ashamed while watching North Country.