Produced and starred by two Hollywood heavyweights, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood, "It Happened to Me" is a mainstream inspirational film that makes people feel refreshed and hearty after watching.
The film is based on John Carlin's book It Happened: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed the World. Morgan Freeman plays South African President Mandela. Morgan Freeman, who is familiar to fans because of "The Shawshank Redemption", is really perfect in his acting skills. President Mandela played in this film has both form and spirit, and has boundless charm.
Legendary characters, legendary stories.
In South Africa before the 1990s, whites and blacks were racially opposed and discriminated against. This situation gradually changed until the legendary Mandela, who had been imprisoned for 30 years, was elected president of South Africa. This great man used the power of sports and the charm of football to let more than 40 million whites and blacks in this country abandon the confrontation of skin color under the same sky, embrace each other, and cheer for the motherland.
In the Rugby World Cup held in South Africa in 1995, the South African team as the host broke all predictions and laws, fought all the way, and finally won the championship. President Mandela was boiling, and so was South Africa. The people of the whole country embraced warmly, and there was no confrontation, no estrangement, and no hatred. At least at that moment South Africans were as pure as the sky.
Fifteen years later, the football World Cup has come to Africa for the first time, to the south of Africa. Although South Africa as the host is not perfect, we have reason to believe that South Africa will also dedicate a wonderful World Cup to the world.
The climax of the film is the championship game. Like football, rugby is a sport of individual strength and teamwork. When I saw those brave players charging forward on the field, relentlessly, and fighting desperately, when I saw the players arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder in a desperate fight, when I saw the audience and the people outside the field shouting enthusiastically At that time, the charm of sports competition will be incisively and vividly! Why are there so many labor-intensive, violent and bloody wars at the cost of human life between people of different colors, races and countries around the world? Or, sports competition can be the best weapon for resolving disputes in war. For the two opposing sides, why not lay down all kinds of weapons, select elite soldiers, and use a sports game, such as rugby, football, basketball, volleyball, etc., to settle disputes? Maybe it's just too beautiful a fairy tale.
Whether it is a fairy tale or a fable, sports should be a great invention of human civilization.
When there is excess productivity, discontented human beings naturally invent many things to spend their leisure time, such as literature, music, dance, and sports. Literature and art are the signs that distinguish people from animals, and sports should be the return of human animality. Those excess strength, those exuberant hormones always have to find an outlet, those sweaty collisions for victory, and the struggle for success, just for the desire of human nature to break through oneself and overcome the opponent.
With the development of modern sports today, various games are not only contests between the two sides on the field, but also have an unparalleled viewing experience. It is hard to imagine that a football match is definitely not a complete game without the audience. Only when the spectators on and off the field cheered and became nervous, did the game have the dual meaning of sports.
So, the quadrennial football World Cup will make people all over the world go crazy, like lovers in love.
Therefore, in a month's time, it is really exciting to see these tall and brave men from all over the world, from different nationalities and different countries, fighting on the court.
Therefore, at the moment when the full field of testosterone broke through the obstacles and shot passionately, the shouting fans, like the players, finally climaxed, and they were really more excited than watching porn!
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This article was originally published on 2010-6-12
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