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Also Known As: Les figures de l'ombres, Talentos ocultos |
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| Year of first release: 2016 | |
| Director: Theodore Melfi | |
| Actors: Taraji Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Drama | |
| Conditions of visioning: 02.03.2017, Cinema am Ostertor, German version | |
| Synopsis: As the USA raced against Soviet Union to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of black female mathematicians that served as the brains to back up the white engineers. Three women calculate the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer), Mary Jackson (Monáe), and Katherine Johnson (Henson) need to cross gender, race and professional lines. | |
| Review: The
movie is a great plot. Not only because it tells the story of one small
step for man that did not become really one giant leap for mankind.
Indeed even if NASA accepted to stop the apartheid within the space
centers around 1960, it took still several decades in the USA for black
people to be allowed to study as equal to white people, to be allowed to
sit in the bus wherever they want as equal to white people. And
nowadays the equality is still not complete. On top of being black, the
three main characters are women! A second disadvantage to get any
recognition and consideration and right to talk in public.The story is
very modern as it shows that for the best of the institute (it may be the same for any company) the boss, here Kevin Costner, needs to have the best for his team regardless from their differences. Equality of rights is crucial. I find the story amazing. It is based on true stories. It is even more amazing to me because it plays in NASA and has to do with space! The acting starts to be great already in the first scene. The three women being helped by a policeman after a tense discussion driven by them. Very funny dialogues, very ironic dialogues, very matching faces enhancing the irony, the fear of being black. It was funny to see Jim Parsons from Big Bang Theory in this kind of movie and having a role of not so clever guy. The camera driving is simple but matching the effects of the scenes. The landing are presented as simple and these are in fact, as it is ballistic flight. |
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Rating: 8 /10
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
Hidden figures (2016)
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I saw the movie on July 20th on an inflight entertainment system. I remembered your good review and watched it because of that. And in fact I do not have much to add to it. It describes pretty well what I felt during and after the movie.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice to thing that us scientists have shown the way to a less discriminating world, but as you point out we are not there yet, and even in our field equality is far from being taken for granted.
My rating is the same: 8/10.