I always forget how good of an actress Sandra Bullock is, she is so good. Ive seen bird-box but i don’t know i think this movie tops it in my opinion. The movie i’m talking about is called “The Unforgivable”, she plays a newly released Washington State ex-con named Ruth trying to pick up where she left off 20 years earlier. She served 20 years for murdering a local police sheriff as he attempted to let bank representatives foreclose upon her family home and evict her and her younger sister Katherine.
This movie tackles the questions of who gets convicted for certain crimes and who doesn’t, and who gets killed by police and who doesn’t; and what kinds of punishments are appropriate for which offenses.
The movie starts off with Ruth being released from prison and then like most released ex-cons even today, they have no support, job or home to fall back onto. Ruth ends up moving in to a women’s shelter bunking with 3 other women and then started working at a fish factory. While showing ruth in the present, the film also included flashbacks every couple minutes helping us understand her pain. Things like the explosive loudness of the gun, the pool of blood spreading from the body of Sheriff Mac Whelan. Ruth makes herself move on and she starts exploring carpentry again which is what she did before prison and she went off to look for her sister who she wrote letters to for the 20 years without response.
Ruth shows how her silence and peace is being chipped away from her as she came back into an unforgiving world. Especially from the sons of the cop she killed, they wanted to get revenge on her and would stalk her day to day. Her only goal was to find Katherine. Ruth would go stand outside of her old house and try to gather information from the people currently living there about her younger sisters whereabouts. The people who did live in the house were lawyers as well, it was a family and the dad was willing on helping ruth while the mom didn’t want anything to do with Ruth and her past.
The topic for your blog is interesting, but make sure to be mindful of grammatical errors, including citations, and the assignment guidelines. This blog only has 368 words, and the minimum was 500. Next time please make sure your writing meets the minimum requirement. I think it’s great that you’re connecting the Sandra Bullock movie to the quality of life for ex-cons released from prison, however, make sure to include concrete sources/evidence if you are writing about real problems in society. Although this is a more fun assignment, it still serves as a “simulation” for writing a real blog. If this was a blog column for a magazine, news article, etc., you would have needed to cite your sources.