This movie will definitely be one that is remembered for a long time. Hidden Figures is a film, directed by Theodore Melfi, about 3 black women named Katherine Johnson (Taraji P Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae), who were extremely instrumental to NASA in the space race. Katherine Johnson was a calculator genius that did all the complex mathematics for the program and help figure out landing zones, reentry points and other extremely important information. Dorothy Vaughan was the supervisor of the colored woman division of NASA and she eventually became the head of the computer program. She taught herself how to work the new IBM machine and made herself and the other colored women irreplaceable. Mary Jackson helped in the wind tunnels of NASA with a man named Kazimierz Czarnecki, he encouraged her to take night classes so that she could qualify for an engineer position at NASA. The only place that offered those was an all white high school, but Mary Jackson was able to get a petition to be allowed into the school, and she would go on to be the first black female engineer at NASA. All around this was a very inspiring movie about going above and beyond what people expect from you and the potential people see in you. This film was a excellent balance of an engaging story line, humor, tension, historic accuracy and a bit of cinimatic extra plot.
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