328. Radioactive; movie review
Cert 12A
110 mins
BBFC advice: Contains upsetting scenes, moderate injury detail, language, sex
When women campaigned for the vote at the beginning of the 20th century, one of their heroines would have been the chemist Marie Curie.
After all, she had challenged the greatest male brains in France to make scientific advances of which they hadn't even dreamed.
Curie (Rosamund Pike) faced appalling discrimination in the early part of her career and only received adequate funding after she reluctantly entered into a partnership with Pierre (Sam Riley) - the man who was to be her husband.
Thereafter, there was no stopping them as she discovered polonium and radium and explored their potential uses in medicine.
During Marjane Satrapi's movie, Pierre Curie is portrayed as the good guy of the relationship - reigning in his brilliant wife who lacks even pretence towards diplomacy.
Some may ask why she should have needed to bow down to weaker minds just because she was a woman.
The evidence of her uphill struggle becomes clearest when her husband is awarded the Nobel Prize on his own despite she being the senior player in their collaboration.
Of course, history tells us that tragedy followed and she pursued her science despite obvious effects on her own health.
These incidents - and her later affair as well as the tumult of World War One, are faithfully recorded during Radioactive as ae flashes forward to the impact her discoveries had for good and bad.
Marie Curie's was one of the greatest battles against adversity in history, leading to changes in science and perceptions about women.
Therefore, there was plenty of material for Satrapi to create a movie full of drama and emotion.
However, despite enthusiastic contributions from Pike and Riley, Radioactive feels as if it is missing an edge.
Neither Mrs W nor I could quite put our finger on what was wrong but we knew it didn't have the wow factor that we expected.
Reasons to watch: Inspiring true story
Reasons to avoid: Not quite as gripping as it might be
Laughs: None
Jumps: None
Vomit: Yes
Nudity: Yes
Overall rating: 7.5/10
Did you know? Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, in 1903, for physics, followed by Bertha von Suttner who was awarded in 1905 (Peace Prize). As of 2019, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 53 times (Marie Curie is awarded twice).
The final word. Rosamund Pike: "This was like an explosion of someone's brain, that's what it felt like to me, like the movie kind of takes this big brain and blasts it apart and of course it jumps forward to things she could never have experienced because that's how her mind works." Entertainment.ie
Reasons to avoid: Not quite as gripping as it might be
Laughs: None
Jumps: None
Vomit: Yes
Nudity: Yes
Overall rating: 7.5/10
Did you know? Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, in 1903, for physics, followed by Bertha von Suttner who was awarded in 1905 (Peace Prize). As of 2019, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 53 times (Marie Curie is awarded twice).
The final word. Rosamund Pike: "This was like an explosion of someone's brain, that's what it felt like to me, like the movie kind of takes this big brain and blasts it apart and of course it jumps forward to things she could never have experienced because that's how her mind works." Entertainment.ie
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