Word: karens
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...nine years since her death, it has pleased many people to think of Karen Silkwood as a sort of Joan of Arc of the nuclear age, an ignorant peasant lass who was martyred after she heeded the voice of a developing conscience and dared to point out the lack of adequate safety measures and quality controls in a plutonium-recycling plant where she was employed. This facility was owned by a corporate giant (Kerr-McGee) working under a Government contract, and Silkwood died in an auto accident on her way to show a New York Times reporter supposed documentary evidence...
Plutonium was handled in the Crescent, Okla., plant that employed Karen Silkwood; that this woman, whom they cannot show as anything but neurotically self-centered and very messy both in her private life and in her relationship with peers and superiors at work, for reasons of her own decided to take a leading role in her union's campaign to remedy these defects; that thereafter she began to suffer from radioactive contamination, which may have been caused by someone in the company, but could possibly have been self-induced; that on the night of Nov. 13,1974, she lost...
SILKWOOD is a devastatingly lyrical film about the mysterious death of anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood on November 13, 1974. The film carefully weaves together Silkwood's sheltered life as a technician at a nuclear power plant, her relationships with her boyfriend, lesbian roommate, and fellow workers, and her burgeoning disgruntlement with the safety conditions of the pleat...
Meryl Streep effortlessy recreates Karen Silkwood as the simple, not-too-intelligent woman she most likely was: a woman who naively begins to fight corruption without ever grasping the magnitude of her struggle. Like her stunning Academy Award winning performance in Sophie's Choice, Streep delves wholeheartedly into her role, displaying nuances and foibles that make Silkwood believable. We feel her physical revulsion when she gets brutally showered and scrubbed after receiving radiation contamination; we see her go through the motions of a rather doldrum life, confront her roommate's homosexuality, and unconsciously adapt to the volatile world of union...
...captivate the viewer, as her clear and resounding voice reinforces her naive struggle against the establishment. Silkwood is not an enjoyable movie but is instead painful, especially during the scenes preceding Kevin's death. But on the other hand it plunges into the lives of Karen Silkwood and her friends without sensationalizing the struggle against bigger and more powerful foes. The poignant acting and cinematography make the film flow gently towards its graveyard end, while it is the actual story of Silkwood's life that leaves the deepest impression...