Hidden Figures

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