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This 3 page paper uses the film as a springboard for discussion on environmental protection. Several suggestions are made to make the world safer for people to live in.
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effects of pollution and that the deaths of others can easily be swept aside if no one makes noise. This is so often the case in society today. It takes,
as the title suggests, court action to get any satisfaction. Of course, that satisfaction is something that is never achieved. It is always too little too late. Once people have
died, or have gone through a myriad of miscarriages, their lives are already ruined. In the film, John Travolta is the lawyer who is shown a case where several
children have died of Leukemia. Is this cluster attributable to pollution that is dished out by a local plant? The idea is that this is the case, and that the
plight of the people has been ignored, is highlighted in the film. There are many sick people being ignored and while at first, this hot shot lawyer does not want
the case, in the end, he explores and exploits the situation to make sure that it never happens again. Newsweek describes John Travoltas character this way: " Hes an ambulance
chaser who is so obsessed with the case that his small firm, working on contingency and spending millions, is driven into bankruptcy" (Ansen, 1998, p. 67). The case is not
anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tied to a local plant or environmental condition. Of course, some dispute
the authenticity of the story. Again, it is based on facts, but does not really display the facts as should be noted. Kennedy (1999) evaluates the film against the real
life events and draws the following conclusion: " In retrospect, the party most responsible for the cancer epidemic these chemicals may have produced was the city itself. Given that a
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