Silkwood

The film Silkwood from 1983 set in the early 1970s in the U.S. and treated the true story of Karen Silkwood, a laboratory assistant. You never completely came under unclear circumstances in a traffic accident in the time when she worked at a plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma and hired union and dedicated research on life-threatening, infringing practices in their operations.

Action

In a fuel - factory of the company Kerr -McGee repeatedly accidents happen in the handling of radioactive materials. Compared to the employees but these are downplayed, security documents are forged. The chemical technician Karen Silkwood ( Meryl Streep ) wants, given the accumulation of events, the eyes no longer sealed and begins to get involved in the union. You will be asked to provide evidence in order to use them in negotiations with the Executive Committee may. Under partly mysterious circumstances, she is herself several times radioactively contaminated. In her private life she has setbacks. Your support in the workforce declines, she leaves her boyfriend for a while because he does not want to share their dedication. Finally Silkwood to hand over the documents ( retouched among other radiographs of welds on the fuel ) a reporter for the New York Times. At the meeting it never comes; her car veers off the road and she died of the consequences of the " mysterious accident [s ] ." Whether she led the documents with him, remains unclear, they were not in Silkwoods cars ( so the text credits ).

Criticism

"The film is trying to make the authentic case, the empathetic portrait of a woman who is fighting for its identity, but it remains largely in the conventions of socially critical problem film stuck. Excellent: the performance of the lead actress. "

" Rambling excursions into the love life of Silkwood give the film more human touch than wholesome. With Boyfriend and a friend, she led one for the Midwest rather unusual menage a trois. [ ... ] The scenes in the factory are of latent menace. Almost in disbelief the audience sees today as the workers - disguised as astronauts and only protected by rubber gloves and glass walls from the deadly substance -. Moving quite unconcerned until once again is howling the alarm bell because one was contaminated "

Awards

  • The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actress ( Meryl Streep ), Best Supporting Actress ( Cher), Best Director, Best Editing and Best Screenplay.
  • Cher won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
  • Meryl Streep assigned the role as Karen Silkwood in the American Film Institute's 47th of the "Top 50 of the heroes of film history."
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