Radioactive

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If you haven’t seen "Radioactive", it was excellent.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7OwbuLn-INE

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Went pixelated haywire at around the 57-minute mark, so I've still got the remaining part of the film to finish from there.

Didn't expect Marjane Satrapi to be a graphic novelist herself, adapting from another one's work (Lauren Redniss).

With respect to trivial artistic liberties...

Brief glances didn't find anything to back-up Marie suffering from nosocomephobia, nor under exactly what surrounding conditions Irène Joliot-Curie and her sister were born. Both fictional and historical characters nowadays seem to require a token, personal nugget of injury (past traumatic experience or victim abuse incident) in their lives to serve as an Achilles' heel, an origin story, or rite of passage to adulthood. So maybe "fear of hospitals" was the best Jack Thorne could come up with. (I.e., lack of battlefield service, daddy issues, date-rape, exposure to Polish jokes in Poland itself, abortion, etc in Skłodowska's earlier background.)

At least Pierre's fixation with spiritualism didn't need to be invented. Arthur Conan Doyle was into that, too -- perhaps popular with investigative intellects of that era looking for "new frontiers" to exploit the properties of. (Leave it to a Houdini with little formal education to be the aggressively skeptical one.)

The couple was indeed heavily into bicycle riding, so a stop for a skinny-dip in the country maybe not too much of a stretch. But Skłodowska has such a stern look in even her youthful photos that it's hard to picture her being carefree at 28 to 30. Then again, a grim visage in photographs was often the default until the innovative opportunism of the commercial enterprise finally introduced "Say cheese.".

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She looks less stern in her wedding photo. They say that her papers are still highly radioactive and stored in lead-lined boxes. You have to wear protective clothing if you want to see them.

Good flick though. I really liked it.

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She looks less stern in her wedding photo. They say that her papers are still highly radioactive and stored in lead-lined boxes. You have to wear protective clothing if you want to see them.

Good flick though. I really liked it.

Amazing Marie made it to age 66. Ol' Pierre was ready to check-out early even without the fatal accident.

[Secular Sanity]

She looks less stern in her wedding photo. They say that her papers are still highly radioactive and stored in lead-lined boxes. You have to wear protective clothing if you want to see them.

Good flick though. I really liked it.

Amazing Marie made it to age 66. Ol' Pierre was ready to check-out early even without the fatal accident.

Yeah, the scene with her looking at it on her pillow while lying in bed, it’s something that we all would have naively done. I even have a hard time not looking at the dental curing lights. It’s such a pretty blue, isn’t it?

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[...] Good flick though. I really liked it.

Yep, thanks for the tip, SS. Finally got to see the remainder, without any more hiccups.

Have seen documentary specials in the past, but always keep forgetting that interval of public unpopularity she went through.

Nice to see her "radiology service" in WWI field hospitals fleshed out cinematically. On the negative side of that though: As if she needed to receive yet more exposure via poorly protected X-ray equipment.

It largely jumped over the post-war period, but really not much "exciting" there for a movie focusing on key incidents and phases of her life. Just travels and sitting on stuffy committees and seeing to the institutes she established.

The surreal(?) transitions to the future made it a little bit overtly preachy in terms of both good and bad consequences. (I prefer "connections" and "messages" to be subdued, in between the lines, subtextual.) But what with filtering and censorship of history nowadays due to its various modes of offensiveness, Gen-Z viewers probably need things like that bluntly illustrated or spelled-out for them.

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Ha-ha! You’re right though. I think there were two clips, and they did feel out of place, but unlike the general public, we’re aware of the weight of her contributions to the development of the atomic bomb. I don't know how you'd go about inserting a (read between the lines) scene. Subtly never works for me. It works on me but not for me. Perhaps, they could have tossed in a scene with Lise Meitner, who wrote to Marie Curie inquiring about lab space. There wasn’t any room for her in the Paris lab though, and so she made her way to Berlin. Meitner refused an offer from the United States to work on the Manhattan Project. That might have worked as a way to link Curie's work to the Manhattan Project. Somehow tossing in Lise Meitner’s refusal and some footnotes on the significance of Madame Curie’s work and the end.