Then bring on the equal-opportunity schmaltz if Hollywood is going to turn all history into audience-pleasing schmaltz

There’s apparently maybe not really a chapter of US history that Hollywood can’t develop into feel-good, audience-pleasing schmaltz — and then let there be equal-opportunity schmaltz if that’s going to be the norm. “Hidden Figures,” to its credit, performs this type of thing well, also it does it on the part of black colored women that are really great at mathematics.

In telling the tale of three mathematicians whoever breathtaking minds were important for you to get NASA astronauts into room and back off once again, the film perhaps perhaps perhaps not only stirringly celebrates smart ladies of color (while the idea that is very of it self), but inaddition it offers an even more realistic-seeming depiction of racism than we generally be in US films. Continue reading →