The Geiger counter plays a crucial role in revealing the horrifying truth about radium poisoning. The moment when Bessie (Joey King)  and the other girls use it to measure radiation levels on themselves is especially chilling when the Geiger counter goes off wildly, proving that their bodies have been contaminated by the very substance they were told was safe.

At the time, this was considered a cutting-edge advancement, making watches  more pratical, mainly for soldiers in World War I. The movie  shows the devastating consequences of this innovation, as factory worker mostly the  young wome were instructed to use the "lip-dipping"  sharpen their paintbrushes with their lips to create fine tip technique to create precise strokes, unknowingly ingesting toxic radium.

Radium-infused water the widespread belief in the early 20th century that radium had health benefits. It was marketed as a miracle, believed to boost energy, cure ailments, and even promote youthfulness. Some elite members of society drank radium water, thinking it was good for their health, completely unaware of its deadly effects. This blind faith in radium’s supposed benefits contrasts sharply with the suffering of the factory workers, who were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily. The inclusion of radium water in the film underscores the dangerous mix of corporate greed and scientific ignorance that allowed the radium industry to thrive unchecked until the truth was exposed.

You can see a  Etta ( Susan Heyward) uses a motion picture camera to capture all kinds of footage and evidence  throughout the movie. She is a social activist and wants to capture sociopolitical issues going on during the movie. I think her role deserved more development.

In the movie, it took only a few minutes to pass the time for the radium girls story to atrack attention. In real life, their story took about a year to become a hot topic for newspapers.

Once dial painter’s started to get sick and die, American radium sent out a “specialist” assuring the girls they would be fine. This same “specialist” would later diagnose the sick workers with syphilis in order to tarnish their reputations. The “specialist” was not even a medical doctor. He was a toxicologist that was paid by American Radium.