The film tells the story of how three black Americans gained a place and respect at NASA despite the reality of segregation and educational inequality. This kind of story is not uncommon in American movies, but what I like about "Hidden Figures" is that it starts from the perspective of three black women. Their difficulty lies in not only people of color, but also women and mothers, breaking through this triple reality Pressure, but also achieve brilliant achievements.
In an era when white women were still fighting for equal rights, they relied on their own intelligence to stand out among so many smart minds: one became an engineer, one became a mathematician specializing in satellite orbit measurement, one became the leader of IBM computers the chief executive.
This movie is very cool to watch. The protagonists' struggle for rights and interests is not a gesture of rushing to the sky, but the firmness of "you can't get used to me and you can't get rid of me". This kind of survival in the cracks, restraint, forbearance, moisturizing things silently, is a kind of survival wisdom, and it is also based on the ability that others cannot replicate. It is not so much that they are fighting for rights, but that their intelligence has broken through the barriers of NASA, which is dominated by white men. It is this indispensability that has made them invincible and written into the annals of history.
The three protagonists Catherine, Dorothy and Mary all have historical prototypes. Of course, they did not appear in the same historical event. The film presents them in a time period, which improves the drama and viewing pleasure. In fact, women scientists, as well as black women scientists, have a much harder road. In the entire advanced path of science, they have paid much more than shown in the film, and they are not alone. The achievements of more women or women of color have been erased by historical writing, buried in the archives, and unknown since then. , they are eternal "hidden figures".
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