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Hidden Figures


On today’s blog I’m going to talk about a movie called Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi and released in 2016. I watch this movie during my class of software design and architecture and I have to admit it, I liked it, but not that quite much, is the kind of movie that you could see in a Sunday morning on tv, at least for me.

The movie talks about three women and how they helped the NASA during the space race to make during the cold war (I think it was during the cold war) against the Russians. In the movie there are introduced three women, Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughn, who are trying to contribute and make their own way through their jobs in NASA. More importantly the movie shows how they struggle because of the discrimination at the time, so they couldn’t receive the treat they deserved, all of this happened during the NASA project of the first man to the moon.

For many of us, we can´t imagine that kind of discrimination, but in the movie,  it shown clearly crude, for example, there were two types of bathroom, the one for white people and the one for colour people, specially designated places in the public transport, even different color of coffee mugs! Literally that’s insane

The movie really shows how these three women break their necks in their jobs to move forward in their career and make really good contributions to their area, not only because they were geniuses, but the effort and perseverance they had to step aside the problems and face them face to face, and win, and that is what everyone should do, not everyone is a genius, I’m not a genius, but with enough effort, anyone can achieve great things.

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