at over two hour and mike nichols silkwood be rather long and slowly pace and and not quite what i be expect . the dramatic and mysterious circumstance surround the real karen silkwood life and death lead me to think that the movie would be suspenseful and closely plotted and focus mainly on the subject of unsafe working condition at a plutonium processing facility . instead and it more of a character base movie and a chance for meryl streep to create a detailed portrait of a working class oklahoma woman . of course it always a pleasure to watch streep dig deeply into a character . she subvert our initial impression that karen be just a rowdy good time girl and play her a a woman who throw herself into union and workplace safety concern because she be lose everything else in her life . she also have good scene with kurt russell ( a her boyfriend ) and cher ( a her lesbian housemate ) . but ultimately and i think that nichols love his leading lady a little too much . he light and shoots streep to look almost too movie star pretty in many scene ( despite her awful shag haircut ) and and her voice be almost too good when she sing amazing grace . several scene could be trim or cut entirely and and karen character arc would still be in place . for instance and the first 30 minute of the movie spend way too long deal with karen relationship with her three child and who be now in the custody of her ex husband and but never appear in the movie after that . because nichols be never sure whether to focus more attention on karen relationship or on her job and and be unwilling to even try to explain the confused circumstance behind karen silkwood death and silkwood and while a good showcase for streep and do not fully work a a film .