Photo Description

In this picture you can analyse the following information, there is an Australian rugby player kicking the ball in middle of a match in Australia. The differences of traditional rugby an Australian rugby is that the second one is played in a circular field and you can tackle a player without the ball, thing that in regular rugby you can't do. The players of the picture were using unsleeved T-shirts and shorts with the colours of they respective teams, also using studs. The expressions of the black team are of sadness because the blue team had scored a point all the players in the picture are standing and only one kneeling. The main focus of this photo is the player of the blue team kicking the ball to mark a point against the black team.

Photo Description Invictus

This image reflects when the Springboks visited a poor community on Johannesburg, South Africa. They go there because they were trying to unify the white side of the country that was the British people with the other side that were the black people. With this beautiful action Mandela was trying to stop a civil war that it will destroyed the country and his people.

In the photo you can see how the Springboks share a whole afternoon playing rugby with little children of the poorness side of Johannesburg. In the photo all the boys seem to be very happy and having a good time.

The Springboks team was dressed with sports clothes with a sweater of the team, shorts and studs. And in the other side the poor children were dressed with worn out shirts, shorts and a pair of shoes.

The actions were that they were passing the ball from side to side and clapping at the same time, the expressions of their faces were of extremely happiness and surprise from the children, because they never had the opportunity of playing rugby.

Movie Review

Invictus (2009) Movie Review
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for brief strong language
Reviewed By: Franco Nervi on October 30, 2014
Genre: Sports Drama
With: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Distributor: Warner Bros. pictures

“Times change, we need to change as well” Francois Pienaar, Capitan of the Springboks said these emotive words to motivate his team before the match, referring that they could change the history winning the match versus the all blacks. This movie has a genre of sports drama mixing with a crude social reality, this sports drama shows how Nelson Mandela follows the idea of unifying a whole country by winning the rugby world cup.

Invictus faces the horrible reality between two different nations, the British culture that were the minority of 43 million people that lived in South Africa and the Native’s African people. Nelson Mandela who lid a violent opposition to the regime of Apartheid, that were in the government in that moment. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and condemned to life sentence, he was released 30 years later in 1990 and he started working as a representative of the multiracial democracy.    After the victory of his party he was elected president in the elections of 1994 and he was the first black president in South African history. This movie is based in real historical facts, like the decision of Nelson Mandela of using the rugby world cup to find the support of the white minority and reducing the racial tension that could caused a civil war, trying to unify this two cultures.

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Invictus, invited a Francois Pienaar, (Matt Damon) the captain of the Springboks to a cup of tea on the presidential house to argue about winning the World Cup. Francois Pienaar motivates his team to make an effort trying to win the world cup.

The Springboks started winning a lot of matches and they get very quickly to the final. In some parts of the movie Nelson Mandela felt’s very gloomy when he remembered his days in jail. The Springboks made a beautiful social work visiting some poor children and they spend one day playing with them and showing what Mandela’s proposition was. The Springboks who made an enormous effort to get to the final were very afraid to play the match against the All Blacks because they were very powerful as a team. I will leave you here because I don’t want to disclose the great ending of this film.

I totally recommend this movie because it reveals the different social classes in South Africa at that period, and how a president didn’t feel any remorse to the people that arrested him, because he wanted to unify a whole country, to make a democracy in South Africa. The movie has beautiful pictures and scenes that show us the poorness of that country. Also the Springboks team was acted by real rugby players except the main actor: Matt Damon.