Friday, January 12, 2018


 Film review
 Hidden Figures
 Armonela Dulja

    Hidden Figures is an incredible drama film directed by Theodore Melfi in December 2016. The main characters of this film are three colored women: Katherine Johnson ( played by Taraji Henson) , Dorothy Vaughan ( played by Octavia Spencer ) and Mary Jackson  ( played by Janelle Monae ) .They work at NASA where they find a lot of difficulties due to their color .  Despite all these difficulties these women made their dreams come true and they realized their aims.
   This film is that kind of film that treats the problems that a colored women face in her everyday life firstly, because of being a women and secondly, because she is black. These three women have a dream , have an aim to accomplish but they always had obstacles in realizing their dreams because of their colors but at the and they did it. They never gave up. At the beginning of the film Katherine was put to assist Al Harrison in his group and to give her skills in analytic geometry. For her it was a challenge being there because she was the first black woman on the team. She had to face the indifference of the others in the team. She was not allowed to touch anything and to go anywhere where the others “white” people touch or go . Al Harrison was the one who supported her when he found out that she had to run  a lot of miles away to go to the colored section and also after that he allowed her to be included in the meetings. Also another  person who supported her was an astronaut named Glen that requests she to be called back in her position to calculate some other numbers that they wanted to be sure. So as the time passes she become the most important employee there.
  Dorothy wanted to be the supervisor of NASA. When she saw that electronic computers would replace human computers she went to a public library to take a book to learn abot these computers where the librarian pull her out for being in the whites section. Despite this fact she realized to take the book and taught herself everything about how to work with these computers and then she officially became a supervisor of NASA.
   Mary’s dream was to become an engineer but she had to attend classes in a white school and she thought that she would never realize it but it happened the opposite. She went to a court and convinced the judge to give her permission to attend classes in a “white” school. She realized her dream and become an engineer. The only one to supported her was her housband and he believed in her.
  I really enjoyed watching this film. If I will have the possibility I will see it again and again.  I firmly believe that all should see it because you will be attracted by it and interested to see what’s going next , what is going to happen in the end . I really felt a little bit sad and pity about these women due to the difficulties that they dealt with in their work or in their everyday life just because they are colored but when I saw that they had a happy life in the then I felt happy too. The message that this film gives to us is very clear: WE ARE ALL EQUAL despite the nation, the color of our skin , the gender , the language or just because simply being a women or a man. And as Al Harrison says: “We all pee the same color”.

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