movie-Hidden Figures

A review of the movie Hidden Figures directed by Theodore MelfiHidden Figures, by Theodore Melfi, is an inspirational historical fiction movie based on a true story. The movie is set at NASA during the 1950s or the time of the Space Race. The first thing people think when they think of the “Space Race,” is the astronauts who risk their lives to better their country and move it forward. However, people do not think of the mathematician, scientists, engineers, and programmers that dedicated all their work to bring the astronauts up to space. The movie is about three black women, Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan, who worked up the ranking in NASA to achieve what no other African American had done at the time. They worked with NASA in an effort to launch John Glenn, an astronaut, up to space and orbit the Earth to beat the Russians in the Space Race. Not only does the movie show the hard work these ladies clocked in, but the female empowerment that took place to achieve where they needed to be. Although the movie did a commendable job of showing women empowerment, it twisted history and added fictional events and characters to make it seem more heroic.The movie, Hidden Figures, does an incredible job of sending an inspirational message to their audience during the movie. It shows how one can do anything they set their mind to, as long as they work hard to achieve it. In the movie, Goble, Jackson, and Vaughan fought to earn where they were in the rankings in NASA by working hard and advocating for themselves. Although they were eventually successful in doing so, they still faced hardships. These hardships included racism and sexism, as well as the challenges that come with a harder job. What makes these ladies so remarkable is how they worked hard in their day jobs and came home to take care of and work for their families’ needs. Not that many people recognized all of the women mathematicians and engineers, and this movie focused on them and brought these ladies’ stories to people's attention. Some of the hardships they faced in the movie included being successful women in a male-dominated field, being as treated as a janitor, having to attend classes at an all-white college to become an engineer (an effort to prevent blacks from becoming engineers), having your voice suppressed by others, and being withheld important information that is required to complete your work. All of these hardships were faced and overcome by Jackson, Vaughan, and Goble. Also, John Glenn, the first astronaut to orbit the Earth, asked Katherine Goble to double-check the calculations that the machine had made before he went on his mission to orbit the Earth. He said that he would only go as long as Goble said the numbers were correct. The movie shows how these ladies got far in NASA by working hard, despite them being in a racist and sexist world. The message this movie is trying to send is truly inspirational because the audience will be empowered to work hard for what they want.Although Hidden Figures empowered people, especially women, to fight and work hard for what they wanted, the movie twisted the truths so that it would be dramatic and emphasize their inspirational message. One thing that was false in the movie was how Katherine Goble experienced a tremendous amount of segregation during her time working for NASA. In reality, Goble did not receive much segregation due to the fact everyone was trying to launch a man into space. The segregation she received at work was nowhere near the segregation and racism she received in the movie. Also, Paul Stafford, one of Goble’s coworkers, was made up by the director. He was made to portray the prejudiced and sexist attitudes people had towards black women at the time. The character did a multitude of derogatory actions that included demoting her to secretary, not allowing her to attend briefings, as well as deleting her byline on official reports that she had worked on. The biggest difference between the movie and the true story was that there was a multitude of people who worked on the project, not just these three ladies. There were sections and branches that reported to the directors and all of these people total up to way more than the movie portrayed. The movie added many fictional scenes to make the lives of Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan more challenging to make the movie more dramatic as well as convey the message of female empowerment.Although the movie conveys a female empowering message, it includes many fallacies about the true story of these three women at NASA to make the movie inspirational. Overall, the movie is fantastic because it still sends an inspirational message of female empowerment to the audience and has a positive impact on them. Although these women were shown as absolutely incredible in real life and the movie, the movie also created fictional events to make their lives look even more heroic. The only reason stars were taken away from the rating was because the director made up fictional scenes and characters to dramatize the movie more, but the positive about the movie strongly outweigh the negatives. This movie should be recommended to any age group because everyone should receive the message the movie sends, which is to always work hard for what you want, no matter what. This movie should not be recommended to people who only want the history behind the movie because they might be provided with false facts. All in all, this movie should be recommended to anyone who seeks an empowering and heart-warming movie.

I think, if I knew about these Amazing Black Women ..... I would have been much braver in pursuing my dream of becoming a Computer Programmer... At the age of 16 I wanted to be a Jet Pilot or a Computer Programmer... I took the back road way into becoming a Programmer.... Had I known about These Remarkable Woman.. I would not have accepted entrance in the back door, but insisted, I had every right to go through the FRONT DOOR.... This Movie was not just entertaining, It Was INSPIRATIONAL!!! I hope & Pray it will INSPIRE Young Black Women, matter of fact, ALL Young Women.... We have the Intelligence, the Talent, The Work Ethic... Just like Men => Well I'd Say (This goes out to all Women who Worked or Does Work for a Clueless Man)_.. MORE Intelligent.... MORE Talented, More Loyalty Than ANY Other Man!

Couldn’t stop watching this movie and learned about past history I never knew about!

This was probably one of the best movies I've seen.

Love this movie.Such a good untold story of the 1950-1980.Not many bad words- just a great story.

Really enjoyed this movie.

One of the best movies I've seen in along time.. not only inspiring it was educational too! I never heard any of this NASA history before.. all of the actors and actresses were phenomenal!!

This uplifting and inspirational movie is about three African-American women's struggles and contributions to NASA's 'space 'race' in 1961 and 1962. The three women work as 'computers' (African-American calculating and support specialists) but are gifted and talented. The women are mathematics genius, Katherine Goble-Johnson (Taraji P. Henson); computer programming and supervisory wiz, Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer); and engineering-minded, Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae). All three women face challenges, obstacles, and puch-back from Paul Stafford, an insecure and arrogant mathematician (Jim Parsons); Vivian Mitchell (Kirsten Dunst); and numerous sexist bigots. Kevin Costner portrays the hard-driving but fair-minded Al Harrison, head of the Space Task Force who becomes Katherine's direct supervisor. Katherine's husband, Military officer, James Johnson (Mahershala Ali) is noble and a man of integrity. Glen Powell is the noble astronaut, John Glenn who befriends Katherine. John Glenn, astronautOlek Krupa plays Karl Zielinski, engineer (aka Kazimierz Czarnecki) who encourages Mary Jackson to become an engineer.Stay for the epilogue text before the credits which tells of Mary obtaining her engineering degree and becoming NASA's first female African-American engineer; Dorothy continuing as NASA's first African-American supervisor; and Katherinecontinuing to work with Stafford and becoming the co-author of the NASA publication on the calculations for the trajectories for the Apollo 11 and the Space Shuttle missions. We also are told that in 2015, Katherine was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, NASA dedicated the Langley Research Center's Katherine Johnson Computational Building in her honor.The movie's director, Theodore Melfi and screenplay writers (Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, Margot Lee Shetterly) delivered a moving movie about three American women heroes.

素晴らしい映画です。特に主役級のアフリカンアメリカンの女優たちの演技が光っています。音楽も、この映画のために作詞作曲されたもの、そしてこの映画のために選曲されたジャズ、ヒップホップ、ラップ系も秀逸です！

ちょうど日本で上映していたが、上映館が大阪でも２館しかなく、奈良からでは、、と何気なく検索してAMAZONに輸入盤の在庫を見つけ、価格も納得のいく範囲であり、今回購入をきめました。これから活用して行きたいと思います。

嫌味な展開が少なく、主人公たちの心境がストレートに伝わります。数学好きの方というより、アストロノーツ好きの方におすすめ。

この映画は、友人のお勧めでしたが、上映映画館が限られていて、しかも一日１回限りとかなかなか安易に鑑賞できる状況でなかったので、ＤＶＤを購入いたしました。ＮＡＳＡの古い歴史というか体制とかが伺い知れて良かったです。悪しき習慣を打ち破る事は現代でも通じ、その考えや行動は学ぶべきところが多いにあると感じました。久々に大人の鑑賞に堪える映画に出会えました。

どこに質問してよいかわからないので、ここに記載します。DVD再生できません。機器故障かと考え、別の機器でも再生不可英語商品であり、対処法が不明です。DVDの不良品なの。中にQRコードがついていたのですが、見るための設定があるの？そんなはずはないですよね。