To truly understand and appreciate this particular movie, which had a thunderous applause at the end of the viewing I saw demands only one thing from the audience. Empathy and with a big heart of love because otherwise you just don't get it.

This was a movie based on actual facts. Katherine Johnson is still alive at 98 years young. It is based on the book of the same title written by a black writer, Margot Lee Shetterly, her first book. It took her to take a leap of faith and courage to tackle writing this book because no one else was and she knew that…