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- Robert Harris
Hidden Figures was one of my top three films from 2016. It just makes me smile.
It's a multi-faceted true story of mathematical wizards working for NASA in the early 1960s.
The kickers to the story, and there are two, are first that the wizards are women, and secondly, that they're "colored."
Being more than a bit of a liberal, I still recall discussions with my parents as we traveled through the Southern states, trying to make sense of signs denoting colored this, or colored that. That, and the chain gangs.
We've made huge strides to get to a real point of equality in the past 50 years or so, but there's still a road ahead of us.
Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi, deals with all of these attributes, while honing his film toward the technical necessities of getting astronauts into space...
and then bringing them down again, safely, to a predetermined area.
My initial exposure to the film was on DVD. I later sampled it on Blu-ray, but Fox's new 4k UHD release, with a pleasant layer of HDR, works beautifully, yielding imagery that up-rezzes a bit better than one might get from an up-rezzing BD player.
Shot on film, Hidden Figures makes a wonderful addition to a 4k library.
Image - 5
Audio - 5 (DTS-HD MA 7.1)
Pass / Fail - Pass
Highly Recommended
RAH
It's a multi-faceted true story of mathematical wizards working for NASA in the early 1960s.
The kickers to the story, and there are two, are first that the wizards are women, and secondly, that they're "colored."
Being more than a bit of a liberal, I still recall discussions with my parents as we traveled through the Southern states, trying to make sense of signs denoting colored this, or colored that. That, and the chain gangs.
We've made huge strides to get to a real point of equality in the past 50 years or so, but there's still a road ahead of us.
Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi, deals with all of these attributes, while honing his film toward the technical necessities of getting astronauts into space...
and then bringing them down again, safely, to a predetermined area.
My initial exposure to the film was on DVD. I later sampled it on Blu-ray, but Fox's new 4k UHD release, with a pleasant layer of HDR, works beautifully, yielding imagery that up-rezzes a bit better than one might get from an up-rezzing BD player.
Shot on film, Hidden Figures makes a wonderful addition to a 4k library.
Image - 5
Audio - 5 (DTS-HD MA 7.1)
Pass / Fail - Pass
Highly Recommended
RAH