![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Radioactive
Jun. 10th, 2020 08:56 amWe watched Radioactive last night, the recent biopic of Marie Curie, starring Rosamund Pike, and it was... terrible!
Both the writing and the direction felt very clunky (there's no emotion in this scene, so let's have a fire burning in the distance when they kiss so that it frames their heads!), and the way it was put together was very scattershot, and almost incomprehensible in places. It also wasn't very accurate, based on Dave's brief internet research.
At one point, in 1903, Pierre announced that their work had been nominated for a Nobel Prize and that he wouldn't accept it unless Marie's name was also added. The next scene had him giving an acceptance speech in Sweden on his own, and the scene after that was her yelling at him for taking credit for her work. Um, what? It turns out, a group of other people lobbied for Marie to be named as receiving the prize, but they didn't accept it until 1905, when they both went together. Um, what?
When it wasn't moving too fast to keep up, it was lingering on single shots way too long. When it wasn't zipping through her life in fractured snapshots, it was jumping to the 1940s and 1950s to show uses for the discoveries with very little context. It also had 'science' montages that either had way too little or way too much detail, and very odd music.
Overall, baffling and also quite tedious, which is a shame because it's an interesting story.
Both the writing and the direction felt very clunky (there's no emotion in this scene, so let's have a fire burning in the distance when they kiss so that it frames their heads!), and the way it was put together was very scattershot, and almost incomprehensible in places. It also wasn't very accurate, based on Dave's brief internet research.
At one point, in 1903, Pierre announced that their work had been nominated for a Nobel Prize and that he wouldn't accept it unless Marie's name was also added. The next scene had him giving an acceptance speech in Sweden on his own, and the scene after that was her yelling at him for taking credit for her work. Um, what? It turns out, a group of other people lobbied for Marie to be named as receiving the prize, but they didn't accept it until 1905, when they both went together. Um, what?
When it wasn't moving too fast to keep up, it was lingering on single shots way too long. When it wasn't zipping through her life in fractured snapshots, it was jumping to the 1940s and 1950s to show uses for the discoveries with very little context. It also had 'science' montages that either had way too little or way too much detail, and very odd music.
Overall, baffling and also quite tedious, which is a shame because it's an interesting story.
