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Silkwood
Drama
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value grounded social dramas about ordinary workers confronting entrenched institutions and paying a heavy emotional price for pursuing justice.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, melancholic
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- worker safety, institutional power, whistleblowing, solidarity, moral courage
- Setting
- late twentieth century, industrial nuclear facility and working-class town
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