First of all, I really enjoyed the characters; I felt extremely bad when Katherine screamed at the white men for treating her like a subhuman. I spent so much of the movie dreading that some kind of obstacle would be encountered by the trio. I liked the sass, their friendliness, they were generally extremely likable. After Jim Johnson met Katherine, I spent so long dreading some kind of drama in their courtship; luckily that didn’t happen. When I checked the facts behind the movie, I was a little disappointed in the fact that the movie heavily dramatizes the situation of the women, making it seem that they were facing a much larger hill that they really were. Sure, Dorothy Vaughan was definitely recognized as the first black woman supervisor with a extensive knowledge of Fortran, Mary Jackson was one of the first female engineers in NASA. Katherine Johnson was indeed requested by John Glenn to check the launch coordinates. But Katherine didn’t have to run to the colored bathroom in a different building in heels everyday. Mary didn’t have to convince the court to let her take all night classes. Dorothy was a supervisor in real life years before she was promoted in the movie. I know that it’s natural for a movie to want to dramatize; NASA treating their black female employees just the same as everyone else doesn’t have the same impact. But I dislike the fact that they changed it so drastically. Going from that point, Al Harrison not being real, being the savior of Katherine, giving her permission to attend important meetings and expand beyond her role as a lowly computer, was a bit odd . Do these women need a older white man to give them what rights they need? Why did the movie have to make him up? I enjoyed Harrison while watching, but in hindsight, something about the fact that the writers made him up bothers me somehow. Perhaps I would have enjoyed this movie more if it was a documentary and not a drama, or if it had been completely fictional.