Liu Yu said in "Details of Democracy" that the political correctness of American society can be summarized into the following four basic principles: not to offend minorities; not to offend women; not to offend homosexuality; not to offend different beliefs or political opinions have. The theme of the movie "Hidden Figures" is exactly the first two.
I haven't cried in a movie for a long time, let alone three times in a movie. "Hidden Figures" was nominated for Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards, an American inspirational film, and it made me see a lot of sadness. Its sadness is that you can't decide your skin color and gender, but you have to This loses the rights of ordinary people; you have to be good enough to get something that ordinary people have at their fingertips.
The three details that moved me the most were the efforts made by the three black women in fighting for their rights and everyone's extremely positive views.
The first was when Katherine broke out in the office soaking wet after returning from the Colored washroom. After she was transferred from the Colored Calculator Studio to the core department, there was not only subjective discrimination from white people, but also many objective restrictions. For example, here, she could not use the public coffee pot in the office, and someone specially prepared it for her a few days later. They have a coffee pot and are labelled "for people of color" as if they have some kind of infectious disease and need to be quarantined. Furthermore, there is no restroom for her to use here, so she has to travel halfway across the campus to the original department, where there is a "colored-only" restroom hanging by the door. Therefore, when the supervisor asked her why it took her 40 minutes to go to the toilet every day, Katherine, who had just crossed half of the park in the rain with a stack of calculation materials, angrily recounted her dissatisfaction and grievance.
At this moment, all people's hearts were touched. In their "natural" behavior, they have actually deeply hurt a person's heart. The next day, the supervisor personally smashed the sign to classify the bathroom with tools. In my opinion, what was smashed was not as simple as a signboard, but behind it was the establishment of the concept of "start from me and resist discrimination".
The second is that Mary finds a way to file a lawsuit and go to school to get the qualifications she should apply to be an engineer. Before that, another detail that struck me was that a white executive went into a restaurant of color and told her that the reason she couldn't apply for an engineer was because the addendum stipulated that she must have a degree from the University of Virginia, even if she had math and A bachelor's degree in physical science is the same qualification as an ordinary engineer. She turned back to Katherine and Dorothy: "Every time we have a chance to improve, they move the finish line!" Imagine that you have passed the interview to be admitted, and suddenly tell you that I am sorry, we have an additional condition that your father must be an official.
The first episode of Mary's appearance in the engineering department really broke me in a cold sweat. When observing the prototype of the Mercury Seven, I also stuck the high heels on the mesh board on the ground, so I was more afraid that other men would show disgust expressions, showing that "women are just like a woman who has more than enough success", fortunately Her "mistake" was innocuous. Similarly, Mary's luck also lies in having a very nice boss. He used the personal example of "I can become an engineer as a Jew" to encourage Mary that nothing is impossible. The key is to strive for it. Therefore, when Mary stood in the court and said that to the judge, it seemed that she was "easy" to impress the judge, but she actually did a lot of homework behind her. This is the other side that an excellent woman has shown us. Not only must you have a sense of resistance, but also use wisdom and methods to achieve what you want.
At the same time, she is also a character who often exudes her own feminine charm among the three. She not only shines at the ceremony to welcome the astronauts, but also dresses up and shows beauty in daily work.
As a digression, I am so envious that everyone in the United States has a sense of rights protection in lawsuits, which not only reflects the perfect legal system in the United States, but also the most basic legal awareness of ordinary citizens, which was still in 1962. I was discussing with a friend yesterday, why are Chinese people not very aware of their rights? It’s not because Chinese people don’t care about their own rights, but because of the high cost of rights protection, insufficient means of rights protection, and unsatisfactory rights protection effects. More often, people have to balance between rights protection and loss. Give up your rights. This is the tragedy of the people, but also the tragedy of the society.
The third is that after Dorothy was humiliated by a white woman with vicious language while picking books at the library, she and her children were kicked out of the library by guards, and she sat on the bus and said the following to the children .
The three heroines' three views are right, I really admire. In contrast to many phenomena in our society, most people will take "discrimination" and "oppression" for granted under a specific "rule". I mentioned in the article " I Spend the Spring Festival in the Rural Areas " that this is the case when female elders do not come to the table.
But Dorothy was not "tamed" in the movie. And he also continued to learn, improve self-worth, and keenly grasped the development direction of the times - self-taught programming, and led a group of black women out of the "colored" office, to technology, to the future, and more. independence and self-reliance.
Looking at the film reviews, many people think that it seems too easy for the three women in the film to pass the test. Is it really easy? Maybe we can't sympathize with this kind of discrimination that the whole society deliberately sets up barriers. Including those who keep claiming to be non-discriminatory, do not actually think that their behavior is a kind of harm and targeting.
Fortunately, there are always people who become pioneers, paving the way for the latecomers. The United States, which we now regard as an advanced democracy, still had serious racism and sexism 50 years ago, but almost elected a female president in 2017.
On the other hand, in the society we live in, we still often see Weibo posting news such as "Recruitment only for men", "Women are forced to become reproductive machines", "A woman in Durban is shocked by xx" and so on. Saying this is not because the moon is more round in foreign countries, or they must have no gender discrimination. On the contrary, the struggle for women's rights and the equal rights of ethnic minorities has long been a global movement. There are no national boundaries, and we Everyone is fighting for basic human rights.
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