If you haven't seen this movie--WHY NOT?
I'd been meaning to watch it for forever and just didn't for various and sundry reasons. Then last Saturday, DD and I sat down to watch something and as we were looking for the movie we intended to watch, the card for this movie popped up and I said that first sentence to DD:
"Ive been meaning to watch that and have just never taken the time."
She suggested we watch it instead, which we did and WOW. I was blown away.
What didn't I love about this? Nothing but the racism as befit the period of the movie, but no helping that. Racism was an unfortunate fact of life then as now.
The performances were fabulous.
The three women showcased by the film, Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), represented a cadre of about thirty to fifty Black women who were labeled "Colored Computers" according to the film. The book featured a fourth human calculator, Christine Darden, but she wasn't featured in the film by name.
The composite character of Al Harrison played by Keven Costner turned out to be a good guy, and John Glenn has always been a class act and Glen Powell did him justice.
Again, if you haven't seen this--what are you waiting for. It's currently streaming on Disney +.
Hope you had a great holiday and I hope you enjoy the upcoming weekend.
Take care!
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