A Pleaseant Vision Delivering a Semi-Hidden Truth with Schmaltz & Charm

Rating: 7/10 (11 June 2017)

The Movie Chooses to Deliver its "Hidden" Message of a Semi-Suppressed Story of Three NASA Mathematicians, Circa 1961 at the Height of the "Space Race", that were Female and African-American, in a Pleasant Template of Super-Sheen and Clean Atmosphere. So much so that the Movie Never Seems Real. Ironic because it's a "Real" Life Story "Based on True Events".
OK, so We're in PG Land here and Everything is Spiffy, Spotless, Groomed, and Gleeful. Well, Almost Everything. The Segregated Bathrooms are of a Major Concern in the Storytelling and the Segregated Coffee Pots as well.
Buying into this Fantasy (the way things looked and the polite way people acted in general) is a Conceit that the Film Throws at the Audience to make things as Easy to Digest as Possible.
It's almost like They Felt that Kids (6-12) were the Target or at Least that those Kids Definitely Needed to See this Injustice. But See it in a Feel-Good way. A Really Feel-Good way.
There's very Little Tension and the Flaws in America's Pre Civil Rights Era were hardly more than an Inconvenience it seems. The Movie is Beautifully Safe and Subtle to a Fault.
But it is a Good and Noble bit of Schmaltz with the Added Gravitas of being basically Factual and that's an Inspirational Thread that won't come Unraveled no matter how many Racist and Apologists Pull at the Saccharin Presentation.
The Acting is Superb, the Film has an Appearance of a Glossy Magazine of the Time Period, and is a Good and Welcomed Antithesis to Civil Rights Movies of Recent Years that Boil Your Blood. This Charms with its Childlike Innocence and Infectious Inspiration.