Excellent film on the story of three African American women who, in the years of racial segregation, make their way into the Nasa.
Katherine (Taraji P. Henson) is a brilliant math and together with her colleagues Dorothy (Octavia Spencer), unrecognized supervisor, and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae), an aspiring engineer, work at NASA.
We are in 1961, a racist and a bit of a bigot; they are three intelligent and ambitious African Americans and they will have to fight against prejudices (even or especially in a company like NASA) of their colleagues.
Wonderful film that makes one turn up the nose on the abuses to which people of color were subjected; separate bathrooms, distinct water fountains and many other restrictions for African Americans. In addition there is the race to send the first man in the space between the US and Russia to be the background (but not too much) to the story.
Katherine, with her great mathematical mind, will make a big contribution to the team involved in the first space flight captained by Al Harrison (Kevin Costner); he will have to fight with chief engineer Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons) who does not respect her at all. Instead Mary Jackson will have to struggle to win the right to become the first African-American engineer; with the arrival of the IBM 7090 computer it seems that for the color mathematics (which have a department in itself in the NASA) there is no more space but Dorothy sees it long and will start to study the programming language Fortran that will serve to program the computer and he will teach it to his collaborators to keep them out of work.
An intense, interesting film that thrills with the fight against racial prejudices but also with the steps forward to send the first man in space.
In the rest of the cast to quote Kirsten Dunst in the role of acid Vivian Mitchell, supervisor of the color group.
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Reboot of Mad Max's film cycle with Mel Gibson, even if the facts told seem to be related to previous films (of which I have little memory, but I was not impressed).
The film is set in a post-apocalyptic future; the first part is crazy enough, with crazy and out-of-line characters (Max himself is tormented by visions of the past in which he failed to save his family). Max is practically the blood supply of the Son of War Nux, and most of the first part is attached to the hood of the car.
Bad sound, the speech of Immortan Joe to the people I struggled to follow him.
The film improves in the second part with the escape of Furiosa with the young brides and the pursuit by the subjects of Immortan Joe.
I struggled a bit to settle in the world of Mad Max, then slowly the film is a little grown reaching the sufficiency.
I will have to review the original in order to express a more complete judgment.
In the cast to quote Tom Hardy in the role of Max (quite taciturn), Charlize Theron in those of furious, the former model now launched in the cinema Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (is the pregnant bride) also seen in Transformers 3, Zoe Kravitz (the daughter of Lenny, another of the Mothers, seen in the saga of Divergent) and Nicholas Hoult who after the zombie of Warm Bodies plays another particular character (is the son of War, Nux).
There is also Megan Gale, whose first appearance shows her how Mum did it.
