knowledge
4 films tagged with “knowledge”
Hidden Figures
The title is doing structural work. The figures are mathematical — orbital trajectories, launch windows, re-entry angles — and they are hidden in the ordinary sense that the calculations these women performed were not at…
The Imitation Game
The machine works on a Tuesday, and by Wednesday the problem has changed completely. For months the Bletchley team has been consumed by a single question: can they build a device that tests Enigma configurations fast eno…
Fahrenheit 451
The firemen in Truffaut's film are not thugs, and that is the point that makes the whole thing land. Captain Beatty speaks clearly, reasons well, and explains his work with the patient authority of a man who has thought…
Desk Set
In 1957, the year Sputnik went up, Hollywood released a romantic comedy about a reference librarian being replaced by a computer. Bunny Watson and her three colleagues sit in the research department of a television netwo…