Morgan's acting skills are definitely worthy of praise. In these 90 minutes of light and shadow, I once thought that he was Mandela. Whether it is the image, the tone of speech and the solemn expression, it is in line with my imagination of Mandela. I couldn't help but worship him again. No matter any movie or any role, he always easily inspires my love and admiration for him.
Alright, back to the movies. Before watching the movie, I didn't know anything about the background of the story. Therefore, the director uses the details to convey the information bit by bit, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is quite successful. At the beginning of the film, there is a strong contrasting stadium, with tattered barbed wire on one side and a neat black iron fence on the other. It seems that on both sides of the road one is a developed western country and the other is a backward area in Africa. Disharmony and contradictions like this were at that time. South Africa is everywhere. Black kids cheered Mandela while white coach slammed him as a terrorist. This is the different evaluations given to the same thing by people living in different classes, standing on their own standpoint.
Selecting such a story about the growth of a racially segregated football team and winning awards shows the whole contradiction from the corner of the contradiction. Although there will inevitably be some deliberately provocative scenes, the overall handling is absolutely successful.
As discussed before about the screenwriter and the director, who is more important for the role of the film. I have always believed that a good director can make a touching script that is not very good, and similarly, a bad director can make a good script nondescript.
So, this is a very ordinary story, but a very touching movie.
PS: Regarding the question of whether the New Zealand team's loss in the final that year was due to poisoning, I don't think it is necessary to take it into the movie to investigate. The difference between a movie and a documentary can be that the purpose of the movie is to convey belief, I don't think anyone will go to the movie to trace the facts.
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