Invictus, movie which was directed by Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima) starring Morgan Freeman (The Maiden Heist, Thick as Thieves and The Dark Knight - Batman) as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon (The Informant!, Green Zone and The Departed) as François Pienaar who was respectable Springbok rugby captain team.
Springbok is how the South African national rugby union team is called and which on the movie won the World Rugby Cup in 1995. Result unexpected for nearly of all rugby fans but not for Nelson Mandela who truly believed on their conquest.
The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation.
The film began on the day Nelson Mandela was elected as president of South Africa where his believes and actions without revenge were noble points that were presented brilliantly. The Springbok’ story of how they played bad until won the World Cup was completely inspirational, not only about the team but also all actions, Mandela’s beliefs and how should was difficult to lead a country after long time of apartheid.
Nonetheless, what impressed me more was the strong and powerful poem written by William Ernest Henley titled “Invictus” which is also the title of the movie and I have a pleasure to placed it below:
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.
William Ernest Henley
To sum up it, this movie bring us a message that nothing is impossible and to achieve desire results sometimes or all most the time you need to be persistent, you must believe in your beliefs and never give up about your dreams. I personally like it, recommend for all people that have no bias and believe in a better world. I think that one message, probably hidden or not, which we can catch it, that is sports can be a model of behaviour for entire nations.
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