re: No Hidden Figures Thread?

What Hollywood does is the "dialogue of the innocent."

In retrospection, they create a reality where

Person A: is embarrassed by their actions, even though it's the norm at the time...And doesn't know how to react to commonplace things at the time. Its future emotions portraying past events.

And they are smart stupid people. Sheepishly smart.

Person B: knows the world they live in but acts like it doesn't exist. It's not really there but only in movieland . They are on screen to buck history...And tell it like it is now. It's a better world, and we can't fathom how awful it was back then...So we act like 2015.


So you have three current figures trying to convey reality 50 years ago.

Why can't Hollywood just tell stories that are a product of their time and keep them in their time?

Far more powerful. To end bigotry.

You can't put a modern handcuff on past crimes.

You can only put past handcuffs on past crimes.