Yet all three women persevere, breaking down barriers by making themselves indispensable.
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Hidden Figures opens Friday at International Village. It’s those moments where their characters are driving home from work or gabbing at a church function when “Hidden Figures” really sparkles. This is also an inspiring film that told me an awesome story that I had never heard before.
Those women are Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe).
However, the film, which is being hailed for its take on tackling racism, does not completely reflect how some of the women, like Johnson, felt about segregation during their time at NASA. Director, producer and co-screenwriter Theodore Melfi joined producer-composer Pharrell Williams, co-screenwriter Allison Schroeder and executive producers Mimi Valdes and Ivana Lombardi for the event. And if they’re a black woman living in Tidewater, Virginia, what was that like?
Hidden Figures is a attractive film that tells the awesome story about three powerful women and the hard work and sacrifice they gave to the United States.
This “based in truth” drama follows a group of black women who helped NASA solve complex math problems before sending John Glenn into space. Her friends, Vaughan and Jackson, were a computer programmer and an engineer, respectively. “Like, no one showed me how to fall in love with numbers”. What made my heart soar was that no one was left behind. Ahead, Shetterly explains why she wanted to bring this story to light and why it’s an inextricable part of Donald Trump and his supporters’ history. These women knew that success had to be for all of them or it meant nothing, and they constantly put that into practice. Running in skirt and heels, she’s a comic figure, and the film repeats her run three or four times. The pressure of her job, as well as that of a single mother for three children, feels real and tragic. They support each other because they know no one else will. But while it isn’t necessarily cinematically compelling, the inspirational story and the delightful performances will make “Hidden Figures” an enjoyable experience for all those who see it.
It’s been overwhelming. To have your first book published is a big deal, and I was thrilled with that.
Nonetheless, they persevere, as all great heroines do: By the end of “Hidden Figures”, you’ll want to cheer them, particularly Henson’s soft-voiced Katherine, whose glasses have a way of slipping down her nose while her mind races like a NASA rocket. (Kirsten Dunst has a supporting role as Vaughan’s casually racist supervisor, who refuses to promote her, while giving her management level work). These women are smart, smarter than numerous white men who hold higher positions, and yet they struggle to get promotions or even a simple minimum raise.They are not even allowed to drink from the same coffee pot or use a bathroom in the same building where they work with their collegues. They experience sexism disguised as loving concern from their own husbands and boyfriends. Katherine Goble found herself on the task force calculating John Glenn’s orbital mission. They are slighted far more than they’re recognized.
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The other women are no less remarkable.
