Makes ya think!

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2017)

Born in 1957, I was too young to know in any detail what black people at the time were going through. I know what history tells us about slave plantations and the like, but this was the 20th Century and to me people have always been just.. well.. people.
Even at the time when modern man was leaving the planet for the moon, they remained quagmired in petty prejudices and felt they were somehow superior or at least different.
The three women of this film, who might themselves have modern day stories to tell, paid homage to those pioneering and brave women they were depicting. You can't help but watch something like this and feel tainted by the values and actions of white people of the time. Some will say nothing has changed, but I disagree - there are far few bigots around and it is thanks to these six ladies.
I'm not going to review the film in any more detail because many others have done that really rather well. I've just seen Octavia in 'The Shack' and other fans are in for a treat.
Hidden Figures does more than entertain, it hangs our historical washing on the line for all to see. Well done to the originals ladies and equally well done to their modern counterparts.