Invictus – Movie Review
Invictus is Clint Eastwood’s latest Oscar bait about Nelson Mandela and his unlikely bond with a Rugby team. The movie is based on John Carlin’s book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation (which has now been re-named Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation), which is based on the true story of Mandela’s first term as president of South Africa. He saw that his nation was deeply divided and if he was ever going to solve any of it’s problems he needed to heal that division first. He saw his opportunity in the South African rugby team. The team was a symbol of the old white regime and the blacks openly cheered for whoever they were playing against. Mandela thought that getting his nation to unite around this team may be the answer he was looking for. The film tells the story of their 1995 World Cup matches.
