By: Clint Eastwood.
With: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Matt Stern, Patrick Mofokeng.
Genre: Historical / Sports (134 ').
Comment: The politics when it was still politics, and sports as a weapon of mass seduction. It is not who invented the cinema history, is history, with a capital, to be cinema, setting a story straight out from the script and instead is simply perfect artificial fruit's natural destiny. Of that South Africa created a game, a World Cup, rugby. Style "When We Were Kings," a condensation of pure epic, Clint at the time of Nelson. One of the rare cases of movie and keeps promises. And most of all a (head) work duly announced by the three vertices of the triangle of celluloid: Mandela on one side, Eastwood and the other, last but not least, the adventure sports and perhaps more accurate rolling humanly never bore her. For three giants could only leave a monument of film and emotion, that s'allaccia multifaceted art film by American director most prolific and inspired yet more recent years, introducing the current sports "pure", but stifled by theme touched far more poignant in "Million Dollar Baby," and put into this case in parallel without subordinate to politics, discipline implemented on the ground, even when part of a project on paper. Clint Homer's epic is the sport, because this is the way he chooses to travel, sometimes at the cost of neglecting the balance for a project instead of holding large tracts of tones, colors and rhythms of hyper-classic: could show the ugliness of South Africa more crudeness and that visual final dense and optimistic, in fact, contrasts with what is still happening in most southern African offshoot. But its filings seems deliberate, not accidental, as indeed nothing escapes those who have gained experience film, which now leads to the determination of the sling every frame: sorting and representation. Like Michelangelo, in short, Clint away and chisel away, and as a Canaletto, however, chosen the path ahead and discarded all others, embroider and adds delightful details. Even in the event highlight of the film, the memory of the prisoner 46664, is passing through pain and humiliation in the eyes hinted (overrides the non-seen) but for those who know are well aware understand them, placing emphasis instead on, poetically, the ransom that passes through the beautiful lines of William Ernest Henley, author of the poem "Invictus," which gives the title of the film. A level of achievement "sport" then you get the best you can hope, with words worthy of shooting from the field, and even Matt Damon, who seemed so far subscribed to the whole bad boy action, shows a heart in the muscles, adapting perfectly to the climate of hype and excitement that permeates sipped every race at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. The rugby matches look real, because next to the fictional documentary that made the back story (all the footage of the four Lomu destinations, the best player ever of the oval ball, in the semifinal in which New Zealand crashed into England, becoming later as the only rival, announced but respected) and contribute to the credibility of the camera. Out of tune, perhaps some exaggeration: the clock that counts down the last echoes, fights with all sorts of grunts to symbolize the fury of a people in search of a new golden age, and some peaks of rhetoric difficult to objectively digest. But in the era of Caressa and 'amazing' too little credible, Eastwood has the ability to appear sincere and not throw random acute sentimentality. Freeman is a different story itself, pouring all the charisma of Nelson Mandela as a leader in the prim mature serenity, which transmutes the uncertainties into certainties, because before being able to make the sacrifice to reach the goal (not just sports). Evidence that justifies the casting, not only with the physical similarity between film and real protagonist. Bottom Line, perhaps the most convincing: Eastwood, as always, has an eye for the bad guys, for the losers, and believes in the power of redemption rather than condemnation of indelible. That is why this film, based on a true story and screenplay by blowing in the Carlin book, "Love your enemy," seems tailor-written for the values nth, magnificent (too) Clint.
Do not miss: One of the most moving passages of the entire film: the four tickets for the final match to be given away to family captain Pienaar. The last of such an unexpected visitor, in a symbolic tribute to changing times.
RATING: 8.5 - Mighty
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