Journal 5: Film and real world issues

I am not sure which movie I am to do for my project #2, but for journal #4 I thought that a recnt movie I watched, Hidden Figures (2016) holds a very true message of inclusion and equality of all races and genders. The movie written in the 1960’s during the great space race showed how vital the African American women added to the American dream of making it to space. Not only was it reflecting an importance on race and gender quality in the moral sense (doing this by showing the women to be very much like you and me, loving and strong and relatable, making it a crazy idea to hate them only becasu their skin is darker) but it also had a twist on how the negative vision between races can keep us from growing as a community.

Without the help of the women and the ability to help given by the white males, which was found very hard to get acceptance… America very well could’ve not made it to space, therefore losing the race against all the axis powers of the world at the time. Not only was it a moral reason to see equality as more important, but it was a nationalistic urgency as well.

America is the land of the free. That what makes us such a great country and so very different from other places out there. I believe that a large example of the film appealing to people was the many scenes focusing on the bathrooms. ‘Colored people’ weren’t allowed to pee in the same restroom as ‘white people’ and therefore the smart women had to run back and forth from buildings just to use their restroom. There were many scenes showing the women running with lively music playing in the background, ridiculing the wild task thy white population made African Americans do for such a long time.

It was also very satisfying after some time in the film for a white person to finally say “enough and enough” and knock the sign down so that the women could go to the bathroom in the same building. After all, they were the hard workers and actually got the white men to space.

Not only is this movie showing how equality is needed to better our community and our country and that it is morally right to show equality, it touches on the fact that the way we treated African Americans was quite ridiculous. It seemed very embarrassing for our ancestors to see that they felt that they were right by having separation.