In 1983 I was 2 so this movie passed me by the first time around surprisingly. A friend of mine recommended I check it out so I am. It’s an early role for Meryl Streep well she’d only won one Oscar and had 4 5 nominations by this point that’s out of three wins and too many nominations for this lazy blogger to count. The 70’s and 80’s are a different world from where we are now, health and safety was having an accident book and a pack of plasters. A risk assessment was someone telling you to be careful and possibly a chat about it after in the work canteen. Now of course it’s a different world where things are taken seriously and risk assessments are important and you will be nannied when doing anything slightly risky. Karen Silkwood works in a nuclear processing plant that makes fuel pellets for reactors, she’s in her late 20s and is estranged from her young family. There’s a mistake on the line and some contamination occurs, Karen is blamed for the mishap. When anoth...