Hidden
Figures, a film directed by Theodore Melfi and produced by 2oth Century Fox.
This is a movie where we can see the life that three black women has in the
science and engineering fields. The three afroamerican women are: Katherine
Johnson(Teraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan(Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson(Janelle
Monáe).
These three
women are part of a segregated group in America and around the world. The
society is divided into black people and white people. These women together
with another group of exceptional black women work in NASA but in a different
department and building where only colored women can stay to make the calculations
needed for different tasks.
In this fil
we see many different ways of discriminations, they have to go to specific restrooms,
they were on a tiny office, they were not noticed when asking for promotions or
permissions, they have to many obstacles to work as engineer, etc. They have a great
potential and intellect but because of their color of skin they are considered
to take different positions. At the end of the movie they are considered very
important because in the case of Katherine Johnson, she helped with the
calculations to help to make the first man in the USA orbit to the moon.
Dorothy Vaughan was the first supervisor of the IBM services in NASA, and in
the case of Mary Jackson she was the first female aerospace engineer in the
USA.
I think
this movie is fantastic because it shows us the reality that we were living in
those years and nowadays. It shows us that despite the adversities we have to
confront the reality and make something different, something that reveal why we
are important and that we can make even more than other people think