"North Country" begins with resistance and ends with emotion. Independent women's tenacity for survival and persistence and courage to human dignity are head-on, revealing feminist warmth in the seemingly gloomy tone.
The connotation of Josie played by Theron in the film is very rich. It has both the weak side of being insulted and injured, and the strong side of confrontation. The problems that Josie has to deal with include the family relationship between father and son, as well as friends and colleagues. The relationship between the two, Theron completed the entire performance very accurately.
The heroine in the movie has a lot of inner portrayal, and has many wonderful rivalries with father, son, friends, and colleagues. Theron understood the toughness of this woman and the pressure of her life, but due to the shortcomings of the script, she always felt that her portrayal of this character with a tragic fate was not thorough enough.
