13 thoughts on “Radioactive (2019)

  1. I read Eve Curies biography of her mother. The casual way those early pioneers handled radioactive materials will curl your hair.

  2. I was cringing everytime they handled radium. Unsafe. And I enjoyed the film.

      1. They used to use radium to make glow-in-the-dark watch faces, and the women who were employed to paint the faces would lick the paintbrushes to keep them moist. Most of them developed cancer from that practice.

        1. Nothing Sacred is a great contemporary screwball comedy about the radium girls. Carole Lombard plays a small-town girl who pretends to be dying of radium poisoning in order to garner sympathy and go on a “last great adventure.” Hijinks ensue.

    1. About a year ago, I went to Marie Curie’s lab (now a museum) in Paris. There’s an interesting exhibit on the radium craze of the 1920s and 30s. You can also see her actual lab space; it’s roped off like a standard historical museum, but literally everything in that room is still buzzing with radioactivity. I would have expected at least lead-plated glass or something! Snapped a few photos on my phone and scurried on out of there.

      1. Hopefully you and your photos made it out safely. You’re braver than I.

  3. I saw it came available on Amazon and definitely want to watch it, so I’m glad you liked it, Trystan. I don’t know much about her beyond the basics so I hope the invented key point isn’t too out there.

  4. I liked it all right, but personally would have preferred it without the flash-forwards in time — they were jarring and jilted me out of the film even if they were showing the consequences of their discoveries. An end card stating “what this led to” would have worked just as well, IMO. But… just a personal preference. I like to feel immersed.

  5. No, I haven’t seen this one yet, but I want to. Rosamund Pike is underrated as an actress, and I was intrigued by her being cast in this film. That, and you, the actual Marie Curie.

  6. I didn’t realize Marjane Satrapi directed this. I’m a fan of her Persepolis books, though not so much her later pieces.

    …Can we please please have more women scientist biopics?

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