This
week NHEHS has three recommendations for you!
Our
first recommendation is Hidden Figures.
Hidden
Figures is about three ambitious and bright African-American women who are
interested in science. They get invited to work for NASA on John Glenn’s space
launch. They really impacted this mission and without them, the mission would
have failed. The movie was made to give these women the recognition they
deserved for the first time since the launch.
We
really recommend this film because there are not enough movies like Hidden Figures
that give recognition to people who have had an important role in projects that
have changed the world, but have been forgotten. This film is all about female
empowerment and brings tears to our eyes when we think about the challenges
that women, especially African-American women had to face at the time.
Our
second recommendation is Bend It Like Beckham
Bend
It Like Beckham is a film about overcoming stereotypes and following your
dreams. It follows Jess and Jules, two girls from West London who have a
passion for football but are oppressed by their parents, who think they should
not play sport and should focus on being more girlish and reserved. They become
friends after Jules invites Jess onto her football team, The Hounslow Harriers,
and she joins without asking her very strict parents. However, they eventually
find out and this interrupts their stereotypical view of her not playing sport.
We
recommend this film because it shows that you can do anything you put your mind
to and you can break barriers caused by gender stereotypes. This is good
because this is not often shown in the media and we want this to change.
Another great quality of Bend It Like Beckham is that it reminds you to always
be yourself and the characters really emphasise this, even though it is
difficult for them. The true to life aspect of the film is refreshing to watch
and we really recommend this for everyone.
Following
on from the recommendation of Hidden Figures, Mrs Swift recommends BBC’s 100
Women. This includes a series of five short animated films with subtitles that
celebrate talented women from history whose work has been overshadowed by the
husbands, brothers or fathers. I saw the link to this film about the physicist
Mileva Maric-Einstein on social media and was really interested to find out
about someone I’d never heard of before. I’m planning on watching some more of
the series and hope you do too!
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