The movie is based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. Hidden Figures tells the incredible story of a group of African American women who worked at NASA during the early days of the space program. Among those great talents were some truly hidden figures, which brings us to the 2016 movie Hidden Figures. People pushed the limits, they did what they thought was truly impossible. The great Space Race was something to behold. The goal is for students to develop deeper understandings of the historical discipline while generating questions about the way the world is around them, along with watching classical films that have graced American and international screens. Students investigate historical documents and other sources to determine if a film is historically accurate. Sometimes, it seems, agenda is better off taking second place to the pure pleasure of seeing just how fast a stacked deck can be demolished.Topics is a course at Southport High School taught by Kevin Sanders that analyzes major events from United States and world history through Hollywood films that attempt to portray those events. There are scenes in which kids say the funniest things, bullies receive their comeuppance, hunky men propose in the cutest ways and we get impassioned monologues happy to sacrifice plausibility for whoopability. The performances are uniformly winning when they need to be and hissable when they don’t. A movie that knows right from wrong and doesn’t see any use in complicating matters. ![]() The second film from Theodore Melfi, whose sole other credit, Bill Murray vehicle St Vincent, should have tipped us off sooner to the likely prevailing mood, Hidden Figures is a bouncy, almost garish feelgood girl pic. Glenn, too, is a clean-cut good guy: a trouper when he first meets the girls, distinguishing himself by coming over to shake their hands and gloriously vindicated in the final reel by his endorsement of Katherine’s addition assets. Yet Costner somehow manages to salvage some audience satisfaction from the affair, when he finally smashes down a segregated bathroom sign and declares: “At Nasa, we all pee the same colour.” Kevin Costner rides the waves of cliche with slightly more dignity as their superior: a man who cares only for the numbers, not the colour of those totting them up.Īn extended riff depicting Katherine’s bladder trials as she must make the 40 minute round trip from her desk to the only loos on the campus designated for black women (often, horrifically, to the soundtrack of a new Pharrell Williams track called Runnin’) are among the most tonally askew in the movie. Dunst is dealt a harsh hand, but Jim Parsons fares even worse with his role as a snippy, racist colleague to Henson, forever rolling his eyes in unprogressive protest. It’s semi-soap: the supporting characters at least are fleshed out to a barely skeletal extent. ![]() ![]() The arcs of their stories – as well as Henson’s romance with army man Jim (Mahershala Ali, who, like Monáe, turns in a strong turn following an indelible one in Moonlight) – intersect with fibonacci precision and convenience, yet for all its formula there’s something irresistible about Hidden Figures. Monáe, meanwhile, is Mary Jackson, who must lobby a local judge to allow her access to a local segregated school so she can take night classes that will enable her to train as Nasa’s first female black engineer. Hidden Figures: trailer for Nasa scientists biopic Guardian
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