‘Hidden figure? I’d say I stand out pretty well against these cookie-cutter types.’ Photos: 20th Century Fox
Dorothy Vaughan, one of the three African-American women whose contributions to the US space programme are celebrated in this historical biopic, once said this of the racial segregation and discrimination she faced: “I changed what I could, and what I couldn’t, I endured.”
In adapting Margot Lee Shetterly’s non-fiction book of the same title to the screen, though, writer-director Theodore Melfi and his screenwriting collaborator Allison Schroeder appear to have changed as they pleased, to guarantee audiences a feel-good experience by condensing – and I suspect, sensationalising in numerous places – actual events.
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