Invictus
An amazing story on racism by depicting the South African rugby during the initial year of Nelson Mandela's rule directed by Clint Eastwood.
The main characters are the rugby team captain portrayed by Matt Damon and Nelson Mandela portrayed by Morgan Freeman. After Mandela being elected to presidency after 30 years of imprisonment. He chooses to continue the South African Rugby team which consists of white people and has lost very badly in recent matches eventhough his officials ask him to cancel it. But he doesn't stop with it, he believes that the team will win the world cup that is held in South Africa that year. He makes the team to do training camps in all parts of the country, visits them and supports them. And finally the team wins the world cup.
The film is very heart warming. Morgan Freeman is best in his acting in this film. It's a good film for racists to change their attitude or point of view. With Sri Lanka, my homeland playing in the twenty - twenty cricket world cup, the film made me to believe that Sri Lanka will take the cup this year. And so far it has gotten into finals, while my friends kept on saying that it won't make into semi finals. The film is a must for racists and for sports fans.
In the film, Mandela gives poem titled "Invictus" to the team captain to boost his spirit
"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
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The main characters are the rugby team captain portrayed by Matt Damon and Nelson Mandela portrayed by Morgan Freeman. After Mandela being elected to presidency after 30 years of imprisonment. He chooses to continue the South African Rugby team which consists of white people and has lost very badly in recent matches eventhough his officials ask him to cancel it. But he doesn't stop with it, he believes that the team will win the world cup that is held in South Africa that year. He makes the team to do training camps in all parts of the country, visits them and supports them. And finally the team wins the world cup.
The film is very heart warming. Morgan Freeman is best in his acting in this film. It's a good film for racists to change their attitude or point of view. With Sri Lanka, my homeland playing in the twenty - twenty cricket world cup, the film made me to believe that Sri Lanka will take the cup this year. And so far it has gotten into finals, while my friends kept on saying that it won't make into semi finals. The film is a must for racists and for sports fans.
In the film, Mandela gives poem titled "Invictus" to the team captain to boost his spirit
"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
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