It is a world further devastated by the incredibly deadly Spanish Flu, a disease that was especially deadly for young people, was intensified due to the war’s creation of poor health conditions, and whose reality was both ignored and willfully suppressed due to the incumbent political establishment’s preoccupation with conflict. It is a world devastated by World War 1, a global conflict that saw young men sent to their deaths by the millions. Set in the late 1920s, the world of Radium Girls is one where American women have had universal suffrage for less than a decade. There’s a lot of historical contexts to process with a film like this, and engaging with that context here reveals both the immensity of the drama and the number of parallels to our current reality.
Radium to discredit their righteous cause and attempt to turn public opinion against them, the girls strive to ally themselves with activists, scientists, lawyers, and members of the Consumers League to create real change. Despite deliberate misinformation paid for by U.S. Radium, a corrupt and monolithic corporation that prioritized its own interests over the livelihoods of its employees and its customers.
Against great odds, the radium girls rallied together to challenge U.S. Distribution delays and COVID-19 caused the film’s wide release to be delayed, but there’s something quite opportune about seeing the film in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Radium Girls, a new film from directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler, first screened at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
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