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by prettyxcool » Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:12 pm
What a marvellous feel good movie. Really enjoyed it. The cast is just brilliant. I liked Kevin Costner in this role. Poor Jim Parsons, will he ever get away from Sheldon Cooper, and I thought he did, playing quite low key, as it is not about him, but the three leads.
The story is well told, lighthearted. There is humour, there is fun. There is a lot going on, space race, sex and race discrimination, working mums struggling to look after children, and every scene is so real, and engaging, and flows so smoothly together, the three black women's struggles and triumphs. Then there is drama of the difficulties of trying to get a man into space and getting him back safely to earth, and the courage it takes of those who were willing to go into the unknown.
However, cannot believe it has taken so long to get the recognition that these three ladies deserves, well portrayed by Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughn, a natural supervisor and mathematician, who is also good with programming computers, Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson, the aspiring engineer, fighting to attend engineering classes that will not accept black students, and Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the brilliant mathematician, who earns the respect of her boss, and the only person the astronaut trusts.
So inspirational, nothing held them back!
10/10
Member No. 17 of the "100 free films in 2019" club. 50 seen so far
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