Invictus

This movie as been out for a little bit now but I just recently saw it. Going into this movie one of my fears would be, that it would make a similar mistake to most movies dealing with the topic of racism. For example, Remember the Titans was a great movie but with one fallacy. The correct way in many situations in the movie was the "black" way, while the "white" way predominantly failed. Equality among races is not a competition between who's way is right, this is really just another form of racism. True peace and equality between ANY group of people comes through teamwork and discussion resulting in a plan involving many different ideas forming the best plan. Remember the Titans was all about picking plan A or plan B, when the two great coaches should have made an even better plan C incorporating the best of both plans.

Invictus does not fall into this trap instead incorporating whites and blacks who have a generally equal opinion of each other, those who have some mistrust of the other race, and finally, those people, on both sides, whom completely hate the other side. The movie, without spoiling it, is about Mandala's quest to unify the country without continuing the culture of hate through revenge on the white race. He understood that bringing revenge and oppression would create a cycle destroying the country. Invictus is an excellant movie demonstrating the evil of racism and revenge, and the power of forgiveness through the simple game of Rugby. Go see this movie if you haven't already.