Hidden figures was one of the last movies I saw in a theater and at the end of the movie when credits rolled showing photos of the real women, the whole room cheered! It was very special!
A lot of times they'll do that on the DVD as well. It's one of my favorite parts of fact based movies - seeing the real person or people it was based on ❤
@@masixchell It was uplifting. I wondered if the other audiences watching a film next door could hear all the clapping? They probably did and thought "What are they watching?"
@@badpuppy09 I love when the energy is in a room like that 🙌🏽☺️. And to sit there and honor these women and clap for them, give them their flowers 🥹🙌🏽 - most ppl pop up after a movie…. But to sit there when a movie hits and makes ya go wow!! It’s electric 😎🔥🔥🔥
It was one of the few movies I saw in the theater in the last 15 years. I am in a STEM career and I was interested. I also saw this movie at the Chase in St Louis City and it was a very spirited crowd lol
I love the little tap she does and the car just perks up! This movie is fun to watch, I like how each woman overcomes difficulties due to both their gender and the color of their skin. I especially love the Bathroom scene where she rages at all the white men in the room because she has to literally run a mile just to go pee and she has to drink coffee from a shitty little coffee pot that tastes like crap.
I love that scene, too! It also shows how (some) people aren't bad in essence, just too assorted in their bubble they are blind to the problems of others. She spoke up, and her boss acknowledged the problem.
Yes, it's completely worth watching. Is it faithful to the real-life experience? No. Like many stories, it suffers from the "Hollywood" treatment. However, that doesn't make it a bad movie. What it lacks in authenticity, it makes up for in heart.
These ladies are fabulous actors and I am beyond thankful this movie was made. I LOVE to watch true life stories of people who have overcome great adversity. These women should be the ones our young ladies of today emulate. Beautiful, intelligent and hardworking women who made a difference in their world. Much love and respect to them.
@@michelleferguson17 No, actually. The accepted unisex language changed a couple decades ago. Females call themselves “actors” now. I don’t agree with it, though. 🤨
This was a great movie , but … the scenes that pointed to the disgusting treatment of these women still cuts deep . It’s disgusting on so many levels .
It wasn’t just women sir. It was BLACK women AND MEN. And it wasn’t pointing it out as this is a TRUE story about these women who are in fact real. And TRUE depiction of what black women and men went through. Keep in mind this was the 50s so not that long ago. White women were in fact NOT treated like this…. At all.
I honestly wish they didn’t do this in movies. Adding in scenes into movies where a black person is able to tell off a white person in the Jim Crowe south and during the upset of civil rights movement because it really downplays the horrors of black people and our ancestors went through, I used to feel differently until I watched The Help with my Great Grandmother is 99 as of last month and got upset and told me that they shouldn’t put these ideas into young people’s head that we were allowed to talk like that and do that at the time and told me a story of her neighbor getting shot in his front yard by a white man for just scolding his child at the store who grabbed a toy away from one of the black boys and took it. The man came and shot him in front of his wife and kids and then went to his truck and drive home and waited on his porch for the cops who he told what happened and then went inside and ate dinner with his family and the cop left. Nothing happened to the man. This was 1964, in a Jackson Mississippi, where The Help takes place. She said such scenes makes it look like we could’ve done something and just didn’t when we literally couldn’t. We could get killed in the middle of the town square by a white person for just offending them somehow and then get our home burnt down afterwards, they could get you fired and not hired anywhere, they could get your children expelled from the black school, they could take EVERYTHING and then your life from you with no repercussions just for uttering something or looking at them in a way they found offensive. Which is why I no longer argue with it. I hate these cheesy “white savior” movies and I hate when it’s shown this black person was allowed to do anything they wished and anything they wanted and wouldn’t get punished severely. If they’re going to continue making these black trauma movies then they should be brutally honest with them and how white ppl acted. VERY few people were “white saviors” and the honest truth is, if things didn’t change, many ppl today would be exactly the same way even though they pretend they wouldn’t. They’d be just like white people back then. Because those ppl grew up being taught that hate, you wouldn’t know any better either if you lived back then. So I agree with my greatgrandmother said; they need to stop showing scenes that wouldn’t have happened and they need to stop with the white savior bullshit and show the truth. Shoe the ugly truth of what would’ve happened if 3 black women did that, whether they worked for NASA or not.
@@Plumyboi This man wasn't nice, and most definitely racist. In this scene when he changed his tune he viewed them as tokens, the exception and not the rule. If I'm to be frank it is more than like they would have be beaten and killed. In his racist mind they were being "uppity" from the moment they existed in his presence and even more so for "speaking out of turn". Well if they were men instead of women that also would have increased their chances of being killed just a bit more. This is a great movie but it also was soft on some of the racism and the violence that comes with it.
@@Ren-cp3tnbeaten and killed is a stretch for the late 60s that’s more of a 30s and before thing although it did still happen in then it wouldn’t be likely and definitely not from a police officer as by that time they were actively trying to prevent those types of lynchings
@@Plumyboiexactly. I’ve learned that too many people give up being in the conversation. You don’t change peoples minds by being hateful in return. Fight your fight but know there are other ways to get what you want. He respected them at the end. Doesn’t matter if he respected ONLY them, something has changed. Perhaps in the next black person he meets he will be more engaged in the conversation rather that rule them all out because of his experience. . And on and on the next generation goes with a change in perspective. That’s how we got to where we are today save for those who want to continue in hatred and victimisation.
Love this film..yet another great true story..These women were amazing..another brilliant performance by Octavia Spencer..and with Kevin Costner again after they starred together in Black or White which was also based on a true story.. Definitely recommend watching Hidden Figures. It really touched me at the end when it showed you photos of these ladies and what else they achieved after this..🇬🇧💕🙏✝️👏👍🇺🇸
This part of Black History had been hidden for such a long time making with other things Black folks have contributed. Waiting for Black Wall Street movie!
This show breaks my heart good and bad breaking. When you really stop to think all they have done to black people still doing and how hard black people work and they still be kneeling on our necks literally and how comes. I love Mary why should you have to apologize for being black
@@mackUSA2030 you believe what you want dear sure there are lazy people not doing the work but trust and believe that there are some Katherine's who's dreams are getting killed because of some racist/sexist belief I ain't asking you to agree am just sharing my thoughts
Beautiful Souls. Who ever brought in the cruelty of skin colour and separation of family!!!! Shocking. Some people where kind and respected the Human despite colour, its unforgivable. The maids or slave servants were the most beautiful hearted folk. And i know are very blessed and faithful despite oppression from another human❤ Thank you for showing the world how rich a human you can become and rise above trouble.
I can't understand on any level how a human could treat another human poorly because of their skin color and to think that was common 60 years ago is just repulsive.
Yes it’s crazy. Some of my family is racist af. I just don’t understand why. I don’t care if you’re white, black, brown, purple or rainbow. We’re all human. Racism really doesn’t make sense. Racists must be dumb af if they think their skin colour makes them superior 😂
This is as such an amazing amazing movie they captured the story and the hate of the time period so well I’ve never hated Sheldon more lol obviously movie never do the true story justice but this was a masterpiece
people like that it's often riskier declining their help. refusing their "generous offer" could just offend them and make them angry at you for being ungrateful of their gracious gesture.
This is a wonderful movie. There's more to it than an inspiring story about the space race. These beautiful, intelligent ladies had to fight all their lives to receive the respect they deserved. They were smart to hold their tongues when confronted by a moron like this guy, but it had to hurt.
Unfortunately There Are Still A Lot Of Police Officers. Who Are Racist My Nephew Was Half Black. Half Italian and Black He was dark brown the police were always stopping him. 😢😢🕊️🙏🕊️🙏
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess your nephew was probably breaking traffic laws hence getting stopped. That's more often the case then a racist cop
@@thomasnason4516 💯 true. In fact it has been FACTUALLY PROVEN that the police are not racist or profile anymore. Please look into the HARVARD long-term study conducted by a black professor btw...
That’s funny because according to FBI statistics a white male is more likely to be manhandled or hurt by the police than a black man and a police officer is over three times more likely to be assaulted by a black man than the other way around…
@@thomasnason4516that’s what I was about to say. On the other hand, If the police are stopping him for no reason, then that’s your cue right there that it’s racist bullshit
@hillb4642 My kids CRIED in the end. I did too. They're young so they never expected treatment against black people. I felt it's important to show them
@anavillalta5774 Great film.. The Help is a wonderfully acted film by all of them..that's how it was, unfortunately..some people say nothing has changed but clearly it has..also like Black or White with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer..also a true story..
One of the many kinds of opinions that are wrong. I hate it when people say that you can't have a wrong opinion and they have this kind of opinion specifically hating someone based on their ethnicity and it is wrong.
@@АнаХодящийпонебу it's not confusing to me. I interpret it as the commenter saying.....that they dislike people who judge others based on their ethnicity. Their racist opinions are wrong, and just because racist people have a right to their opinion, doesn't make their opinion right
I remember on one hectic day, I was helping one of my assistants to train this new worker. And that new worker said to me “No, I don’t want you to train me, I want your boss” with the most annoying face I ever seen. Surprised but still try to be polite, I asked “which one?” He said “one of those white guys” I wasn’t in the mood to argue with some assh*le, so I just called one of ‘white guy’ to train him. Later on, that new employee came to me with a big smile on his face and said to me “I’m so sorry with my attitude before. I didn’t know that you are the boss” 🙄 That guy was Asian, and FYI I’m also Asian. To be honest at work I received racism most of time from my fellow Asian. Everytime we train new workers, the Asian one will asking for “the white boss” to train them. But after they find out that I’m the boss, they will put the biggest smile I ever seen. Ironic. 😴
@@anniel1672it makes it easier for some to hide their hands & others to turn a blind eye. Hence the need to "imagine" what others deal with on a daily basis
The fact that they took so long to tell this historical event was insane to me. This movie was amazing. The black women at NAsa at this time were truly phenomenal and the ones who didn't see them for their blackness knew their worth. They were self taught to an extent and smarter than the men with masters and engineering degrees.
Great movie, even more amazing story of the incredible women who made it possible to win the space race against the Soviet Union. Without them we wouldn’t have done it. They made history 💗
I know it may seem like I'm being a jackass but hear me out... When I saw the cop turn it around and start acting like a decent person, I liked it. No excuses for his prior actions, but at least he turned it around.
It’s about time they got the respect they deserved now I hope that our black community does likewise as they are much better role models than any other
Hidden Figures thought me the hustles , struggles and the bustles the average black woman hv to endure to be at the top . And the strength a woman can possess and be whatever she wants to be
