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NewsInvictus premiers in London (February 07, 2010)The film Invictus has premiered in London. Invictus begins with a shot of skinny black kids paying football on scrubland.
Meanwhile, safely corralled in green fields across the road, porcine Aryan boys are playing rugby. A police cavalcade screams between them . It is Nelson Mandela, newly released from 27 years in prison. "Remember , this is the day our country went to the dogs" says the rugby coach.
As an attempt to portray Mandela's life on film, Invictus concentrates the story into the year that Mandela took power as South Africa's first black president and led his country to support the once - hated symbol of apartheid, the Springboks rugby team , in the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Morgan Freeman was blessed by Mandela himself for the role. There are few other actors who could have brought the divided nation together.
Matt Damon plays the role of South African rugby captain Francois Pienaar, who unites his men in a series of scrums.
A must see film. |