Directed by Clint Eastwood
Very good and well acted political/social movie about how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country.
From Netflix: Newly elected President Mandela knew his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
The movie gave me new insight into the thinking that led to the South African "Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act", which allowed crimes committed by the previous political regime to be excused without punishment.
Movie was filmed in South Africa and technical weaknesses included poor lighting, poor film quality and no subtitles when South African support actors spoke in the South Africa form of English.
Invictus is a much quoted short poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley. It was written in 1875. The title of the movie comes from the fact that Mandela had the poem written on a scrap of paper while he served 27 years as a political prisoner. In the movie, Mandela gives a copy of the "Invictus" poem to rugby team captain, Francois Pienaar, before the start of the Rugby World Cup.
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.
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