Hidden Figures

[Vedika]

Hidden Figures is a movie by the director Theodore Melfi. Hidden Figures is a story about three African- American females who were the women that contributed a huge part in the launch of an astronaut into space for the first time in the early years of NASA. This movie is lead by the three women Katherine Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson who are African- American women trying to lead an equal life as the males and the whites in a society where segregation and men being superior to women was common. As you go into the movie you can see the different problems the women face just because of the color of their skin like Katherine has to take “40 minutes breaks” just to use a colored bathroom in another building and that Mary Jackson has to attend a white-only school to take additional courses to become an engineer at NASA. Katherine has been assigned to the Space Task Group that programs the launch of John Glenn, the astronaut, into space. Katherine works under Al Harrison, a white, who truly changes Katherine’s life by taking action against the segregation of bathroom, coffee machines and letting her work more with him because of her brilliant skills in analytic geometry and because he thinks that women can be more in their life. I think this movie brings a lot to the table that was very common yet unfair and negative in the 1960’s and because this story is based on true events it shows more of something that was different than today and their way to globalization. I really loved this movie and I wish I could watch it again for the first time because it shows that gender identity, color of your skin doesn’t matter because change and humanity could be brought through many ways. Overall I would rate it 5/5 because it is just that good.