Give a woman wings, and see how she flies. Give a woman a calculator, and she’ll make you a millionaire.
Hidden Figures is the story of a team of African-American women who played a vital role and were the mathematical brains behind America’s first successful space mission – John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit the earth three times.
Based on a true story, the movie is based in USA of the 60s – When black men and women were still referred to as ‘colored’ and when women were considered ‘lucky’ for having a job.
The movie starts on a high note and ends on a higher one. From scene to scene, the storyline is crisp, simple and deeply empowering. Theodore Melfi does a brilliant job with his direction. Taraji Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae match up to his vision step by step, giving performances of a lifetime. It’s impossible not to feel pride with every move that Kevin Costner’s character makes, and he does beautiful justice to story. While we’ve loved Jim Parson as Sheldon, he plays a character that so many of us might not relate to. And it’s this fact that makes him such an exceptional artist. Big shout-out to Kirsten Dunst and Glen Powell who make us hate and love their characters respectively.
Now that this fan letter is over, the clear winner of the movie are the dialogues. _”Here at NASA, we all pee in the same color”._There are so many moments when the theatre whistled, clapped and just loudly said ‘Niiiiceeee’.
However, it’s what the story talks about in current times that is so bloody important. It is loud and clear about its communication – See what happens when you put someone’s race, origin, color or religion aside and work together as humans. See what we can do when we come together. See how far we’ve come and how far we need to travel. For a world, that has been to the moon and returned, Hidden Figures stands proud with its communication – We have stars that we need to reach to, let’s not go back from here.
