Saw it a while ago.... Pretty good film... Story was a "bit" rose coloured but thats to be expected....
The Rugby bits were absolute Tulip.... I don't know why they picked a dwarf to play Francois Pienaar and a dwarf that had never set foot on a Rugby field at that!!!!!
It really spoiled it for me.... not one of the "action" sequences looked even close to they even knew what shape the ball should be...
A reasonable yarn but IMO not even close to Cry Freedom.... and Biko wasn't a terrorist either!
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Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
Anyone else seen this Film yet? Watched it tonight. Quite a decent yarn, although one might question just how much poetic licence was added. Certainly paints Mandela in a good light which, on balance, can probably only be a good thing.
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