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Hidden Figures (2016)
Meet the women
you don't know, behind the mission you do.
Director: Theodore Melfi,
rated PG for language
  Starring: Taraji P.
Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten
Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"There are no colored
bathrooms in this building, or any building outside the West
Campus, which is half a mile away. Did you know that? I have to
walk to Timbuktu just to relieve myself! And I can't use one of
the handy bikes. Picture that, Mr. Harrison. My uniform, skirt
below the knees and my heels. And simple string of pearls. Well,
I don't own pearls. Lord knows you don't pay the colored women
enough to afford pearls! And I work like a dog day and night,
living on coffee from a pot NONE OF YOU WANNA TOUCH! So, excuse
me if I have to go to the restroom a few times a day."
- Katherine Johnson
Why watch this? It
is a fascinating film about the wonderful black women who were our nation's original "computers".
Plot Summary:
This is the incredible, untold true story of three brilliant
African-American women working at NASA in the 1960s. These
mathematicians, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary
Jackson, were essential to launching astronaut John Glenn into
orbit during the Space Race.
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Dad's Preview: The
quote above by NASA employee Katherine Goble (portrayed
wonderfully by Taraji P. Henson) says it all. Watch it by
clicking the purple play button - upper right. This
historical film dramatizes the junction point both for
space travel and racial inequality. It is still DEI when
your department's success relies on someone of color?
This proved what many knew for years yet denied... that
all people are created equal and discrimination based on
race (among several other traits) is flat-out wrong.
This film goes there and that is its strength. |
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Fox 2000 Pictures,
Chernin Ent.,
Levantine Films;
20th Century Fox |
