This movie is about human behavior and characteristics. It's a hauntingly real movie that has more to do with people in a lull in life than the true events of a mystery.
Meryl Streep plays Karen Silkwood a small town union worker that deals with radioactive material. What you see is her daily life of drudgery, tacked with an estranged relationship with a man who is the father of her children, whilst trying to maintain a household with her current boyfriend (in an amazingly real Kurt Russell performance).
What I loved about this movie is that it was a very specific mood and atmosphere of that part of the world. Director Mike Nichols captured the grit of people. Going as far as to dowdy Cher up and making sure she stripped herself of the glamor that was her bread and butter. What you get are strong barely perceptible "acting." They just "were" these people. Yes, nothing big happens. And there is no way a movie like this gets made today. But, it made me remember my road trips out to the country, where people existed just to exist and understood the terms of their lives, even if they wanted to do better, it just wasn't something they were born into.
I think it would speak to a lot of people today.
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