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INVICTUS: FILM REVIEW

Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The majestic Invictus , the most rousing movie about sport A deeply emotional film. This showed the relational ship between President Nelson Mandela and Francois Pienaar, captain of the South Africa team in the 1995 Rugby World Cup tournament. This movie is inspirational aimed at drawing people together in favor of communism.

The movie begins with a just released Nelson Mandela from 27 years of incarceration. He was elected as the first black president of South Africa. He was concerned about racial divisions between black and white South Africa. These scenes are beautifully handled, and although Morgan Freeman is no Mandela lookalike, he gets just right that slight stoop, the rolling gait and the slow, decisive speech, and is soon in authoritative command of the movie. François is the captain of springboks, the country’s rugby union team. Both black and white, doubt that François and teammates would be able to win rugby championship.

At two key moments, the movie has a forceful topicality. Before dawn on his first day in office, Mandela and his bodyguards make their way to the parliament in Pretoria and a van driver drops a pile of Afrikaans newspapers on the pavement in front of them. Mandela translates the headline: "He can win an election but can he rule the country? Later, when he decides to use the rugby championship for both moral and political purposes, he invites Francois Pienaar to have tea with him. Pienaar, a middle-class man of conventional views, is the captain of a badly failing team, then in the process of returning to international rugby after years of exclusion during apartheid. To test whether he is the man for the great task he has in mind, Mandela asks him about his philosophy of leadership.

There are wonderful sequences in this film. Blunt but unforgettable is the visit Pienaar and his team make to...