成事在人 Invictus 英文版影评

The movie tells us a story about the president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, who is for strongly a rugby team of the white to achieve harmony through unification. Nelson Mandela is the only 21th Century Statesman who can stand in the footsteps of the founding fathers of America. Clint Eastwood is the producer and director to watch, as he knows where to put his attention and efforts into. Morgan Freeman really is Nelson Mandela inside this movie excelling way above the Oscar for best leading actor. That he was nominated and didn't win, only testifies that there still are certain matters to be sorted out in Hollywood. Matt Damon does a great job in the role of the South African rugby captain Francis Pienaar. The movie flatly tells that Nelson Mandela is always busy with different kinds of affairs of the state. Even there is no climax in the movie. But it will keep you stay in front of screen and see it. The film is not just telling a plain tale of a normal person. You will doubt that why a great man can be great, and what kind of special quality he has. Maybe with such questions , you will continue seeing it and gradually find something surprising you.

Invictus (the title is Latin for "unconquered") opens with the 1994 ascension of Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) to the presidency of South Africa. With apartheid officially ended, Mandela must work to achieve harmony through unification. Some of his methods are unconventional, such as pushing for the South African rugby team, the

Springboks, to win the 1995 World Cup, which is being hosted in South Africa. Led by tough-as-nails player Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), the team competes far better than expected and the players learn not only tolerance but how to become heroes and role models for both white and black South Africans.

I think it is a wonderful film. It has moments evoking great emotion, as when the black and white members of the presidential security detail (hard-line ANC activists and Afrikaner cops) agree with excruciating difficulty to serve together. And when Damon's character -- Francois Pienaar, as the team captain -- is shown the cell where Mandela was held for those long years on Robben Island , he then said: My wife, Chaz, and I were taken to the island early one morning by Ahmed Kathrada, one of Mandela's fellow prisoners. He also said “I was thinking about how you spent thirty years in a tiny cell and come out ready to forgive the people that put you in.” which touches me and makes me think a lot .I know if I am the person who came out of the prison and meet these guys who put me into the prison, I won’t forgive them in such an easy way. And yes, the movie shows Francois Pienaar the very cell, with the thin blankets on the floor. You regard that cell and you think, here a great man waited in faith for his rendezvous with history.

Nelson Mandela said in the movie: I am the captain of my soul. And I think I can control my life.