The story of incredible women in an awful era

Rating: 9/10 (20 February 2017)

"Based on a true story". When I see that line at the beginning of a movie I'm already getting excited. It just gives the movie a little bit more punch when you know it's based on real life events. And here it's about segregation in the sixties or how the majority of the white Americans were racists, or at least acted like it was normal for a colored human being to not have the same rights as anyone else. A real disgrace, and if you think about it it's not even that long ago. I would have hated living in that era. Human beings can be such disgusting parasites. But Hidden Figures isn't all about hatred towards other colored human beings, it's mostly an homage to those who helped writing history without getting credit for it, except when they were of old age. A secret well kept, because an Afro-American couldn't be smarter than a Caucasian in that era. So it's not all bad in the movie, you also get a couple of feelgood moments. Moments when I surprised myself cheering loudly for the oppressed. The cast is phenomenal. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe and Kevin Costner are just sublime in their roles. The only one I didn't like was Jim Parsons. To me he will always be the irritating nerd from the highly overrated show The Big Bang Theory. It's just one of those actors I can't stand. I don't know why, it's just like that. But for the rest Hidden Figures is a must watch movie. A movie that tells a story about segregation, women rights and Nasa history. One of the better ones I saw this year.