tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post7909658019203933382..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: She Blinded Me with ScienceSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-17950406422707530452016-01-31T12:41:21.479-06:002016-01-31T12:41:21.479-06:00We'll disagree on this one. I like how much th...We'll disagree on this one. I like how much this respects its subject matter and how much attention is paid to the actual science here. Often, when people claim to love science, they really only love the pretty pictures of space and how cool things look under a microscope. Real science is a lot of difficult grunt work, much of which doesn't pay off. I like that we get that reality here.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-32308686358683478312016-01-31T10:03:29.065-06:002016-01-31T10:03:29.065-06:00To me, a person with only a mild interest in the s...To me, a person with only a mild interest in the subject, this was the essence of a Prestige Project. An important topic about extraordinarily committed people with a real mission to discover something they know is worthy presented in a professional but prosaic fashion. That's admirable but with the stately pace adopted here dull as dishwater. <br /><br />I adore Garson and to a lesser degree Pidgeon and Walker but either through direction or reverence for the Curies their performances seem overly sedate and studied.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-66212167023995689802015-02-15T09:36:03.783-06:002015-02-15T09:36:03.783-06:00Now if I can just work in a Wall of Voodoo referen...Now if I can just work in a Wall of Voodoo reference one of these days...<br /><br />Actually, I completely agree. Neither of my girls is particularly science-y, although both of them do well in the subject and both are pretty solid in math. I've been trying to interest my younger daughter as much as possible in such things and it may be working. She seems to have a minor interest in forensic medicine.<br /><br />I wonder how much of the real nature of this story comes from the fact that the real story was known--the film was only a generation removed from the actual discovery, after all, and Curie was less than 10 years dead when the film was released. It does cause me to wonder how the story would have been depicted if it had happened fifty years earlier.<br /><br />It's the painstaking nature of it that really impresses me the most in both the real story and the film. It would have been easy to, as you say, have them look into a microscope and see something. Instead, we get the four year slog of boiling down tons of pitchblende for a small stain of radium in a porcelain bowl. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-88025450763081225212015-02-15T08:34:00.039-06:002015-02-15T08:34:00.039-06:00Damn, I forgot something. I was going to start my...Damn, I forgot something. I was going to start my comment with "Good heavens Miss Sakimoto, you're beautiful!"<br /><br />Better late than never, I guess.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-19512667627158859362015-02-15T08:32:37.711-06:002015-02-15T08:32:37.711-06:00I liked this film a lot. I was amazed that a movi...I liked this film a lot. I was amazed that a movie made in the 1940s not only gave science a serious presentation, but also showed how critical a woman was to this major contribution. Yes, this was reflecting real life, but bios back then had no issues whatsoever with presenting something other than the truth and the fact that they didn't make Pierre the "real" scientist and Marie just the person who took his notes was somewhat of a surprise to me.<br /><br />And as you wrote, it shows the painstaking labor and time they devoted to this discovery. They didn't just look into a microscope and see something new. They believed there had to be something there (numbers don't lie) and they kept working until they found it.<br /><br />If I had a daughter with even a smidgen of interest in science the two films I would try my damndest to get her to watch would be Contact (1997) and this film.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.com