All of my family has seen it except me, and they loved it.
I have not seen the movie, but I suspect it is filled with PC propaganda.
However, this much I do know. The main character in the movie, Katherine Johnson, is in real life absolutely the real deal. She would be a good role model for anyone, black or white, male or female.
So I’d suggest that your daughter first read up on Katherine Johnson. I’d also suggest that she read up on Admiral Grace Hopper. Adm. Hopper was a computer scientist, and a most remarkable woman.
Haven’t seen it, but Medved reviewed it on his show today and said it was as family friendly as it could be and fine for kids.
Great film! Extremely well done with an almost 50’s-early 60’s feel. Simpler, sweeter times. Excellent for the entire family, yet intriguing, exciting, thrilling!
One of my daughters did an internships at a NASA facility and last May graduated magna cum laude with an Aerospace Engineering degree. She’s now employed with a major aerospace company. My joke has been that we finally have an actual rocket scientist in the family. But if I tried to describe my level of pride I’d fall a million miles short. Your daughter should never be told she can’t do something she dreams of and her talents permit.
“Queen” is an allegedly true story about a female chess genius from the slums of Uganda.
However, several professional chess players have stepped forward and stated that the Uganda woman is, at best, a better than average club player.
Hidden Figures is an anti-white atrocity filled with lies.
The positive response by some Freepers is sickening. How stupid does a conservative have to be to see good in this garbage?
Since history isn't taught anymore and most people find it too dry & boring to read, pseudo-historical tales like this become “historical knowledge” for most. Red Tails, 300 and Saving Private Ryan are the worst examples that come to mind.
And good for your daughter ! Her biggest problem in choosing those as fields of study will be the negative attitudes & influences of most of her gal pals now and in the future. Tell her if she indeed wants to tackle those there will be “big rewards” both in career & personal sense of accomplishment in the future if she stays the course. It will be hard but nothing good comes from “easy”. My daughter made such a decision when she was about that age. She had to endure shall we say a lot of negative “social vibes” along the way and the negativity was entirely from her female social group. I told her they were just jealous! She ended up with a PhD in Chemistry with a great job - career. Married to a neurologist.
Once upon a time; women who knew math, were called : Computers, before the analog/digital variety came along.
It was very motivational. We saw it with a theater full of old conservative farts who applauded for the black ladies’ victories several times during the movie.
http://celebrationcenter.org/hidden-figures-the-power-of-dreams-and-visions/
Suzanne and I saw Hidden Figures recently. It’s an excellent, well-crafted movie about the successes of three black women in the pre-integration South. The all-star cast includes Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, and Kirsten Dunst.
Hidden Figures is based on the true stories of Katherine Goble, later Katherine G. Johnson (Henson), Mary Jackson (Monae), and Dorothy Vaughn (Spencer), who were instrumental in the early days of the space program. When we meet them, they are driving to work at NASA Langley in the Norfolk area, in 1961. Their car breaks down and a policeman comes by. Eventually, they manage to get the car fixed and be on their way.
The women are working in the “colored” computing section in the East building on the Langley campus. They aspire to bigger and better. Dorothy is the supervisor, but does not have a supervisor’s title or pay. Instead, that title belongs to Vivian Mitchell, a white woman (Dunst.)
We watch the three women as they move in their careers. Katherine is assigned to an all-white, all-male computing unit where she is supposed to be checking the other employees’ calculations. Instead, she figures out the launch angles needed to ensure John Glenn (well played by Glen Powell) gets in orbit and home again – especially when his mission has to be cut short. In a meeting, Glenn specifically requests her to check calculations. Mary goes to court to get permission to take engineering classes at an all-white school. Gloria borrows a FORTRAN book (“FORTRAN is the wave of the future”) from the “white” section of the library and reads it, then winds up working on programming the new IBM mainframe computer.
At one point, Katherine’s boss, Al (Costner), tells her that there is more to going to the Moon than simply mathematics. You have to believe it. Later, he asks her why she disappears a couple of times a day for 40 minutes at a time. Katherine explains that she has to run all the way across the campus back to the East building because that’s where the “colored” bathrooms are. Al takes down the “white” and “colored” sign and announces that “we all pee the same color.” At the sloe of the movie, after Katherine’s calculations bring Glenn safely home, Al asks her “Katherine, do you think we can get to the Moon?” She responds, “We’re already there, Sir.”
The real Katherine Johnson is still alive, 98 years old. Today, there is a Katherine G. Johnson Building at NASA Langley.
There are a number of metaphysical themes in this movie. Obviously, unity is a theme in the removal of the color distinctions for the bathrooms. (History records that the cafeteria remained segregated for a while.) Reaching for a dream is central to New Thought. As Oscar Hammerstein asked, “If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?”
All three women are doing that. Mary’s dream is to be an engineer. Gloria learns programming and becomes essential to the operations there, with several people working under her, including her former supervisor. And of course, Katherine’s exchange with Al at the very end of the movie shows the power of having a vision. “We’re already there.”
This is a well done movie that won several Golden Globe awards and is nominated for a number of Oscars, including Best Picture. It’s inspiring and well done. I think you’ll enjoy it. This is definitely a movie worth seeing.