![]() I do not fully understand it, but I guess it shows how we forget or are aware of one side of the time and history but look away at the darker times of another side. Why didn’t the direction have a better side story rather than put in the stock footage? I get the stock footage credit for it showing the lesser-seen side of the 1920s. It isn’t evident because the film felt padded out with stock footage, as I mentioned before. I usually say that movies run too long, but this film felt short and probably could have used more time or a subplot. This movie is short at about one hour and forty-five minutes. You should know where this film is going if you saw enough “based on a true stories/events” movies. I hoped for a better story, but the plot is alright, and nothing gripped me while watching the movie. These side characters had good conflict and story, but are forgettable at the same time in the movie. Paula (Left), Doris (middle), and Bessie (right). But these were scenes that didn’t have to happen to show Jo’s movement and the lawsuit against American Radium. Had that been explored more, I could have liked the movie more. That was interesting to me, but it doesn’t tie into the main story in any way. That’s all for them that I’m aware of, besides potential communisms ideas that they had. Another character introduced was Etta, a black woman photographer and part of the counter culture movement. We see Walt, Bessie’s love interest, and photographer brings Bessie into subversive thinking and counter culture. The rest of the characters felt like they had a better side story, but we didn’t get to hear it. The two had some good chemistry and a believable relationship. Joey King plays Bessie Cavallo, the sister who helps her sister Jo Cavallo played by Abby Quinn, and takes American Radium to Court. There was an overuse of the stock footage that looked to pad out the movie. Radium Girls instead showed this in stock footage, and actors imposed in the film with their events. The film did establish the times of the 1920s but didn’t tell it in the main story. The “Roaring Twenties” or “Jazz Age” following the boom America saw after World War I and entered an era of social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. The setting of the 1920s can be an exciting time to show in American history. I watched this and let down by the movie. This drama was pushed back due to Covid-19 and released on Netflix and in limited release. I did find the concept interesting when I read about the plot. Radium Girls felt like it had the potential to be great. ![]() After Jo gets sick with radium poisoning at work, they and several other workers sue American Radium and take on the corporation for knowingly poisoning them and trying to cover it up. The movie follows two sisters Bessie and Jo Cavallo, two sisters that work at American Radium, painting watch dials. Radium Girls is an America drama film based in the 1920s America and based on actual events.
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