Silkwoods Working Class :: Movie Film Essays

Silkwoods Working Class 1 Before I begin, I would like to win some information somewhat where Im coming from as I fount at Silkwood. When I chose this hit, I did so in a around desperate attempt to avoid working on a remove most war or a biographic accept on a male historicalal figure. Alas, these are the types of films that tend to dominate the historic genre. I pass oned to Silkwood not as a film about the nuclear industry or a murder mystery, unless rather a film about a woman -- not a glamorous woman, but a real woman with flaws. I wouldnt pee chosen this film for the nuclear issue alone, as it is onwards my time and, at least at the onset of the project, I had no real understanding of what the nuclear industry was all about. 2 Though it has been talked about as an anti-nuclear film, the nuclear theme is an underlying one. (A good question to want is why this is NOT the main issue.) The way I look at Silkwood is the way many reviewers have the central issue of this film is the story of the working layer. I feel that I can gab legitimately on this issue, as the rural Pennsylvania town where I grew up is not too far from Silkwoods Oklahoma countryside (except geographically, of course). Some of the problems the Kerr-McGee workers have are familiar to me. For example, job security, especially now as I write, is of utmost importance in my home community. Like Crescent, Oklahoma, my community in Pennsylvania has one main industry, but it is at least a safe one tool and die. As technology increases, these jobs are worthy obsolete, and, so, anyone in this trade in my hometown is lacking job security. And this in turn threatens other local businesses that depend on tool and die workers expenditure their money. 3 But back to Silkwood. As an historical film, it immortalizes an image of the working class in Crescent, Oklahoma, as well as Karen Silkwood, their representative. It is important to think about how the film trea ts the working class -- is the tone condescending, honest, or quaint? And how does Karen run short in as their spokeswoman?