Movies

I must confess that I am a great fan of Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman an Matt Damon (not necessarily in this order), but what impressed me most in this movie was the story (and if it was real, much better!). We can learn from this story that not revenge, but forgiveness is the most powerful weapon of our beings. Seeing this picture movie I realized how difficult was for Mandela to prevent a civil war or even a riot on such a drastic change of regimes. For those who lived under hard circumstances (like apartheid, communism or so called socialism) is much easier to understand the subtlety of the story, and more than that, this movie is a must see. That's one of the reasons I rate it 10 out of 10.

Is Invictus a story about race or is it sports movie, well it's both, and at the same time it's neither.Based on a true story. Set in the mid nineties, Nelson Mandela(Morgan Freeman), is elected President of South Afirica, and still hopes to hopes to end hatred, so in doing that he decides to help a Rugby team that is on a losing streak. He calls to meet the team captain Francois Pienaar(Matt Damon) in hopes to inspire him to start a winning streak. But the question is will he ? A truly great film, well acted by Freeman,and Damon. And perfectly directed by Clint Eastwood. It had great scenery, and an intense Rugby match. And look for Clint Eastwoods son Scott Eastwood has one of the Rugby players. It's just a truly great film.

A great great film. I had resisted it cos my protest against the springboks from the 1981 tour in NZ had left me anti rugby esp. re South Africa. All those people at the time who said politics should be kept out of sport, like that was possible under apartheid! For me, this film drives home the fact of what South Africa has achieved & what so many of us around the world helped create by standing against apartheid & forcing the change. This film shows how sport can be used to bring people together & how smart as well as compassionate Mandela was in embracing rugby, the game of the Afrikaners. It also reminds me why boycotting rugby was so important at the time, cos it really was the game of the white South Africans. Amandla x