Invictus- South Africa!!!!

I may have titled my whole blog Hotel Rwanda Movie Review... I didn't mean to do that... sorry but this is another movie review except this time it is on the movie Invictus!!!!!

Katrina Price
Mod 2
June 4, 2010
Overall Invictus was a great movie on South Africa. South Africa has been through a lot; especially in the last twenty years. In those last twenty years Nelson Mandela has come out of prison and into office as South Africa’s president. They also went from apartheid to a democracy. That was no simple task but Mandela took very good control of it and it went smoothly.
Matt Damon did a great job as Francois Pienaar. He was very convincing as well as being a great leader for the rugby team. The Springboks were also very good actors because they probably acted very similar when it came to teaching the black Africans to play rugby. All of the actors did nice job of portraying what the real people acted like.
On the surface Invictus seems like it is all about rugby; but it’s not. Nelson Mandela uses rugby as his bridge for politics. Being in prison for a long time with white guards he has learned what the Afrikaners love to do; and they love rugby. So he realizes that is the way to bridge the blacks and whites to unite as one. This is a very good way to bring people together. Many people doubted him, but it worked very well.
Overall Invictus was a great movie. It would have been nice if it would have gone a little more in depth. They didn’t really explain much about what happened before Mandela took office. Characters said some of the things that went on but it was easy to miss. Also it would have been nice if it went more in depth after the Afrikaners and black South Africans united. All you saw was that they were now finally friends with each other. But it’s like what are they doing now; 15 years later? For covering the basics it was a good movie.