Mandela Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
That is the problem with biographies. Squeezing 70 over years of a man's life into a 2hour saga does not do justice. It feels as though as seeing a floater sucked into the eye of a whirlpool. Swoosh! Off it goes. Some how you do not the feel the pain that the characters.
The film gets interesting after his after Mandela's 27 years of incarceration with the acting improving and intense. It comes with a few powerful lines. Just before the free elections and escalating violence in South Africa, he makes a plea to his people, "They imprisoned me for 27 years but I forgave them, why can't you?" "You cannot win a war but you can win an election!"
That is the problem with biographies. Squeezing 70 over years of a man's life into a 2hour saga does not do justice. It feels as though as seeing a floater sucked into the eye of a whirlpool. Swoosh! Off it goes. Some how you do not the feel the pain that the characters.
The first hour of the movie just went on by leaving much of an impression. We come to know of a young Madiba as a kind of woman's man and a wife beater. This reluctant politician join the ANC and got himself into loads of trouble with the law and his marriage.
His second marriage to Winnie heralds the duo with similar visions for the country go head on with the ruling Government. Before his imprisonment in Robben Island, he is a testesterone filled boxer, guerrilla, freedom or terrorist.
The film gets interesting after his after Mandela's 27 years of incarceration with the acting improving and intense. It comes with a few powerful lines. Just before the free elections and escalating violence in South Africa, he makes a plea to his people, "They imprisoned me for 27 years but I forgave them, why can't you?" "You cannot win a war but you can win an election!"
It is either that this politician re-branded himself from a firebrand fighter cock to a pacifist or indeed solitude did make him wiser to forgive his perpetrators.
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