A must see movie, I can speak all day about it but I dont wish to spoilt the moment, Nevertheless I will mention few facts, Hidden Figures start with a beautiful pictures, colour, costumes, music all goes synchronized and Integrating the viewer with the main characters, I love the way  these brave  women made their work into a world dominated by only men.

La película tiene una gran belleza en fotografía, una perfecta edición, el vestuario va muy bien caracterizado y deja un mensaje de valor y admiración por luchar en lo que soñamos, también se puede visualizar un bellisimo trabajo en equipo aun cuando las duras pruebas entre sexo no permiten su trajo en conjunto se puede ver, que solo colaborando todos no importa tu sexo, raza, origen todos pueden lograr milagros imposibles de imaginar como llevar el hombre a la luna si nos unimos todos en un solo deseo el bien por la humanidad con nuestro deseos mas optimistas y positivos.

Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about African American women mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine G. Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions. The film also features Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson, with Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, and Mahershala Ali in supporting roles.

Hidden Figures was released on December 25, 2016, by 20th Century Fox, has grossed $182 million worldwide. It was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2016 and has been nominated for numerous awards, including three Oscars, for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Spencer, and two Golden Globes, Best Supporting Actress (Spencer) and Best Original Score. It won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

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Film Review

Without a doubt my favorite movie nominated for this Oscar, it has everything humor, history, culture, women heroes fighting for their rights, brilliant minds, an inspirational movie.

A must see movie, I can speak all day about it but I dont wish to spoilt the moment, Nevertheless I will mention few facts, Hidden Figures start with a beautiful pictures, colour, costumes, music all goes synchronized and Integrating the viewer with the main characters, I love the way  these brave  women made their work into a world dominated by only men.

Beside of women discrimination they have to fight for the colour differences, even so these ladies open a new horizon to the world of science leaving an enormous legacy. The movie is very

The film is very entertaining, easy to watch and leaves a great message of perseverance work and human values, I can say that the acting of the actresses were fabulous even was a plesure watch to act again to Kevin Cosner who plays a very comprehensive boss.

Synosis

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as «human computers», we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.

Historical accuracy

The film, set at NASA in 1961, depicts segregated facilities such as the West Area Computing unit, an all-black group of female mathematicians, who were originally required to use separate dining and bathroom facilities. However, in reality, Dorothy Vaughan was promoted to supervisor of West Computing in 1949, becoming the first black supervisor at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and one of the few female supervisors.

In 1958, when NACA made the transition to NASA, segregated facilities, including the West Computing office, were abolished. Dorothy Vaughan and many of the former West Computers transferred to the new Analysis and Computation Division (ACD), a racially and gender-integrated group.

Mary Jackson was the one who had to find her own way to a colored bathroom, which did exist on the East Side. Katherine (then Goble) was originally unaware that the East Side bathrooms were segregated, and used the unlabeled «whites-only» bathrooms for years before anyone complained. She ignored the complaint, and the issue was dropped.

Mary Jackson did not have to get a court order to attend night classes at the whites-only high school. She asked the city of Hampton for an exception, and it was granted. The school turned out to be run down and dilapidated, a hidden cost of running two parallel school systems. She completed her engineering courses and earned a promotion to engineer in 1958, becoming NASA’s first black female engineer.

Katherine Goble and Johnson carpooled with one Eunice Smith, a nine-year West End computer veteran at the time Katherine joined NACA. Smith was her neighbor and friend from sorority and church choir.

The three Goble children were teenagers at the time of Katherine’s marriage to Jim Johnson.

Katherine (then Goble) Johnson was assigned to the Flight Research Division in 1953, a move that soon became permanent. When the Space Task Group was formed in 1958, engineers from the Flight Research Division formed the core of the Group and Katherine moved along with them. She coauthored a research report in 1960, the first time a woman in the Flight Research Division had received credit as an author of a research report.

Katherine gained access to editorial meetings as of 1958 simply through persistence, not because one particular meeting was critical.

The Space Task Group was led by Robert Gilruth, not Al Harrison, who was created to simplify a more complex management structure. In particular, the scene where Harrison smashes the Colored Ladies Room sign never happened, as in real life Katherine refused to use the colored bathroom and, in her words, «just went to the White one».

Vivian Mitchell and Paul Stafford are composites of several team members reflecting common social views and attitudes of the time. Karl Zielinski is based on Mary Jackson’s mentor Kazimierz «Kaz» Czarnecki.

John Glenn, who was much older than depicted at the time of launch, did ask specifically for Johnson to verify the IBM calculations, although she had several days before the launch date to complete the process.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962 he was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II and Korea with six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen clusters on his Air Medal.

Trailer de Figuras Ocultas 

Estados Unidos, principios de los años 60. Durante la guerra fría, en plena carrera espacial, la NASA busca mentes brillantes, personas con talento para trabajar de ‘ordenadores humanos’. No había superordenadores digitales que pudieran calcular de manera precisa las trayectorias de un cohete, y por eso se buscaban cerebros superdotados para realizar rápidos y avanzados cálculos de cabeza. Las matemáticas Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) y Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), y la ingeniera Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) serán las elegidas que para ayudar a la NASA a ganar la carrera espacial contra la Unión Soviética, llevando a cabo la misión más atrevida hasta la fecha: poner al astronauta John Glenn en órbita alrededor de la Tierra.

Una mente geniosa más poderosa que un ordenador

Los logros de Katherine Johnson fueron memorables, hasta el punto de que estos la llevaron a formar parte del equipo científico líder en la Agencia Espacial durante esos años, que en el filme es comandado por el personaje de Kevin Costner. De hecho, en 2015, recibió de manos del presidente Obama la prestigiosa Presidential Medal of Freedom, la condecoración civil más importante en EE.UU. Henson nos obsequia con otro magnífico trabajo frente a la cámara en este papel. «Fue un descubrimiento para mí saber que había tantas mujeres trabajando en el programa espacial a comienzos de los 60, ya que apenas aparecen en los documentales de la época. Pensé que había que contar su historia».

Critica de la película

La película es muy entretenida, fácil de ver y deja un gran mensaje de perseverancia trabajo y valor humano, puedo decir que la actuación de las actrices fueron fabulosas, fue una alegría volver a Kevin Cosner quien hace un papel de jefe muy comprensivo.

Me sorprendió ver lo dura que podía ser la vida para un grupo de científicas luchando en un mundo laboral totalmente masculino en el cual la mujer solo ocupaba un rol muy reducido y limitado, sin progresión futura, también fue muy depravante ver la diferencia social y de color y como se era juzgado por tu apariencia en vez de tu inteligencia y talentos.

Si bien ha mejorado mucho en los últimos tiempos, aun sigue permaneciendo en silencio  una separación bien marcada entre hombres y mujeres en el mundo laboral.

La película tiene una gran belleza en fotografía, una perfecta edición, el vestuario va muy bien caracterizado y deja un mensaje de valor y admiración por luchar por lo que soñamos, también se puede visualizar un bellísimo trabajo en equipo, aun cuando las duras pruebas entre sexo no permiten su trajo en conjunto, se puede ver, que solo colaborando todos no importa tu sexo, raza, origen, todos pueden lograr milagros imposibles de imaginar, como llevar el hombre a la luna, si nos unimos todos en un solo deseo el bien por la humanidad con nuestro deseos mas optimistas y positivos.

Wrote C.Donoso by Positive Diva.