[originalbuckeye]

The money quote here is: 'According to the book’s author, Margot Lee Shetterly, the real Johnson used any loo she damn well pleased'. So, to make more of a 'race relations' statement of the 60's for the viewing public, the movie had Taraji P Henson, as Katherine Johnson, running with her files across blocks of NASA's Virginia campus, to use a 'colored' bathroom. But it wasn't true......like we really need more 'poetic license' additions to a movie about intelligent Blacks being suppressed in the 60's. That being said, we thought it was a really good movie.....a story that deserved to be told. It just makes you wonder how many other things in the movie were made more incendiary to put across a point ov view.

[Lord Castlereagh]

Did you all know that Newton was actually a black chick?

[metmom]

I saw the movie and it was terrific.

I never would have thought that watching a movie about black female mathematicians would be so good. Sounded boring to me, but it was not.

Lots of actual footage from the era as well.

[nikos1121]

The movie starts out fine, then within minutes we’re back into the “blame whitey for everything.”

I sat fuming for most of the movie, thinking the younger generation of kids are going to think “again” that there was not one decent white person living in the 1960s with regard to treating black people with dignity.

No, you add to it the stereotype of Kevin Costner acting like the king pin, who intervenes when he finds out that the black workers had to walk a mile to their own bathroom.

The movie is disappointing and again has the objective of reintroducing racial stereotypes.

Even at the end of the movie, when the white supervisor had the chance to show respect, dignity and class...they make sure that he doesn’t, as if prejudice is in the genes of all white people.

Don’t waste your money.

[mbarker12474]

Wife and I liked the movie. It was heavy on showing the stupidities of segregation, where darn near every white was bigoted at a personal level, and the office space was segregated by policy.

The mathematics was compressed for the screen, in the same way that racism was concentrated for the screen.

The marriage proposal scene was very touching to this old cream puff.

And it showed people going to church and Christians loving and supporting each other when going through tough times.

[Altura Ct.]

It may be a ‘good’ movie but the idea that these women were instrumental in get Glenn through space is BS There was a team of hundreds of which they were a part not to mention in this ‘true’ movie most of the characters are fictional.