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Feb 2010

‘Invictus’ successfully captures Mandela’s complexity, triumphs

The film “Invictus,” set in South Africa in the 1990s, is about newly elected president Nelson Mandela and his efforts to unite his country through a rugby team. It might be mistakenly put into two categories: the underdog-sports-team-fights-to-the-top category or the political-leader-unites-his-country category. Of course, both of those storylines exist in the film, but that’s [...]

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