History is written by the victors. The rest we have to look for.

Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2019)

Together with Fences and Moonlighting, it seems the Academy is showing some major love to the Black community after drawing some flak for how White last year's nominees were. Or is this in quiet defiance of the current administration, showing how great America has become because of these three hidden figures?
The movie is about the story of three African-American Women instrumental to the US space program working as "human computers" in the 1960s. Imagine being Black, a Woman and can do "on any given day, analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand." At the same time, be subjected to use a "Colored" restroom, be limited to use books found only in the "Colored" section and be forced to fight for your right as a "Colored" student to study in a white school just because you want to better your life.
While the movie took some liberty at changing some of the things that happened in order to make for a better story (comparable to last year's nominee 'Bridges of Spies' starring Tom Hanks), such as the apparent hostility of the white, male-dominated division Katherine Jackson was assigned to or the recalculation of the Go/No Go reentry of John Glenn from outer space, it all makes for a good story and is forgivable because sometimes some people just try to live their life the best way they know how: acting right, doing right and living right. And often, those are the kind that live boring lives.
The three leads were effective even if the roles were derivative, Janelle Monae as the feisty third player, Octavia Spencer as the glue that holds everyone together (and notching a Best Supporting Actress in the process) and Taraji P. Henson as the reserved wallflower that will explode in the middle of the movie. Although there were times I questioned the choice of Taraji because sometimes you can see she's struggling with the acting. Of note also are the three major support, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst and Jim Parsons.