Radioactive
Movie • 2020 • Drama
ReportTells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
This movie contains 16 potentially triggering events.
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mad_melody
When Pierre comes home after receiving the Nobel Prize, Marie yells at him and then slaps him. They make up moments later.
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mad_melody
No children are abused, but there is fear of it: when a little boy in a wheelchair is shown in a hospital, his father expresses his worries that radiation treatment for his son's cancer (which includes strapping the boy down) will hurt and/or kill the boy, but the boy is fine.
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Addiction
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A few characters briefly smoke cigarettes in some scenes.
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Does a horse die?
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mad_melody
After Marie and her eldest daughter ask for funding for medical equipment for the war, the next scene is on a battlefield, and a dead horse is nearly immediately shown.
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Is there a dead animal?
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mad_melody
After Marie and her eldest daughter ask for funding for medical equipment for the war, the next scene is on a battlefield, and a dead horse is nearly immediately shown.
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Assault
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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mad_melody
Marie's and Pierre's lungs soon become damaged from their work with chemicals and radiation, and they cough numerous times throughout the movie. They frequently cough up blood, which is shown on-screen several times.
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Is someone burned alive?
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mad_melody
During the Chernobyl incident, a man walks into the room with the nuclear reactor and is burned alive by radiation. Right after Marie and Pierre are shown at the second seance, Pierre reveals that underneath the bandage he has been keeping on his wrist, he has been intentionally burning his own skin with radium out of curiosity. During a nuclear test in Nevada, mannequins burn up and melt in the explosion. When Marie and her daughter go to a battlefield to help wounded soldiers, there are many soldiers with severe burns seen for the remainder of the movie.
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Is there amputation?
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The last ~quarter of the movie is set during WWI, during which many amputees are seen. Needless amputation becomes a primary concern for Marie and her eldest daughter for the remainder of the movie.
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Does someone break a bone?
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After Pierre looks at some jewellery in a window, he stumbles into the road and gets run over and crushed by a carriage. At the end of the movie, when info is being displayed over photographs, there is a closeup of an x-ray of a hand.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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mad_melody
There is no finger/toe mutilation, but at the end of the movie, while Marie walks through a hospital with Pierre, she mentions that she used to have beautiful hands, and Pierre says radiation deteriorated her bones.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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mad_melody
Marie frequently reflects on the death of her mother, which happened when Marie was a little girl. A major plot point is the death of the father of Marie's young children.
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Does someone cheat?
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A married man has an affair with Marie.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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mad_melody
Marie and Pierre attend two seances, where a woman attempts to channel ghosts; she succeeds in summoning ectoplasm during the second seance. At the end of the movie, two people are shown in the afterlife.
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Is there a shower scene?
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There are no shower scenes, but after Pierre suggests to Marie that they get out of Paris for a bit, they are shown jumping into and swimming in water naked; Marie's bare breasts are shown for a second, and both of their bare backsides are visible for the whole scene.
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Is someone possessed?
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mad_melody
Marie and Pierre attend two seances, where a woman attempts to channel ghosts; she succeeds in summoning ectoplasm during the second seance.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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mad_melody
During the Chernobyl incident, a man walks into the room with the nuclear reactor and immediately vomits.
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Does someone spit?
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No one farts or spits, but Marie and Pierre frequently cough up blood throughout the movie, which is shown on-screen several times.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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There are many hospital scenes throughout the movie.
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Does someone have cancer?
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mad_melody
When a little boy in a wheelchair is shown in a hospital, his father discusses the boy's cancer with a doctor, who then treats the cancer with radiation. During Marie's dream sequence where she walks through hospital rooms, the cancer treatment radiation machine is shown again.
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mad_melody
Right after Marie and Pierre are shown at the second seance, Pierre reveals that underneath the bandage he has been keeping on his wrist, he has been intentionally burning his own skin with radium out of curiosity.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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mad_melody
There are no anxiety attacks, but Marie gets anxious when near or in hospitals.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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mad_melody
The camera is mostly handheld, so it shakes in some scenes. There are several scenes where the camera sways or tilts, or the image flashes and flickers.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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mad_melody
When Marie is lying in bed alone, she starts seeing floating green particles, then a feverlike sequence starts, which devolves into quickly flickering images.
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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silencesilence
The real life Marie Curie had a miscarriage at one point but there's no miscarriage in this movie.
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Is there childbirth?
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Marie is shown to be pregnant twice during the movie. For her second child, after Pierre points that she is bleeding onto the floor, there is a childbirth on-screen.
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Prejudice
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Throughout the movie, Jewish people are insulted and told to 'go home.'
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Is there hate speech?
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Throughout the movie, Polish and Jewish people are insulted and told to 'go home,' and Marie faces some limitations in her field due to being a woman.
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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mad_melody
The ending takes place during WWI (showing many wounded soldiers), returns to the topic of nuclear explosions, and ends with an important death. The last part of the movie is a montage of positive results of Marie's life, but there are too many sad things leading up to it to be considered a happy ending.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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mad_melody
After Pierre looks at some jewellery in a window, he stumbles into the road and gets hit by and run over by a carriage, and he dies.
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Is there blood/gore?
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mad_melody
Marie and Pierre cough up blood on-screen several times throughout the movie. After Pierre looks at some jewellery in a window, he stumbles into the road and gets run over by carriage, and there is a bloody aftermath. Once Marie and her eldest daughter go to help wounded soldiers in WWI, there are many people covered in blood and gore shown for the remainder of the movie.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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theficus
There is a brief re-enactment of the bombing of Hiroshima as well as a nuclear bomb test in Nevada.
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Is there gun violence?
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mad_melody
The last ~quarter of the movie is set during WWI, and soldiers are shown carrying guns, but none are fired on-screen.
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