Invictus

I watched Invictus yesterday and feel good after watching the movie...its again a top of shelf classic from Clint Eastwood with remarkable performances from Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
The movie touched a deep chord with my conscience and proves the fact that forgiveness and not looking back into the past are highly mature form of thinking....something only very few blessed souls have on planet earth....

Invictus means Unconquerable in Latin and is actually a title of poem written by an English poet William Earnest Henley in 1875..this poem was Nelson Mandela's favorite poem ...and something which gave him strength when he was imprisoned....

INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tearsL ooms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

I was amazed by the fact on how Mandela can / could forgive all the people had indicted punishment , insult and pain to his body and soul. In one of the scenes from the movie Freeman playing Mandela truly says that Forgiveness truly liberates the soul and that he can't afford to delve into the past and instill the fear the white government had whilst passing on the power to Mandela.

The movie is based on a book Playing the Enemy : Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation. Its a true story of human bonding beyond racial barriers in which Mandela asks the captain of the Springbooks (South African rugby team) to win the 1995 world cup for the country and people of South Africa.

Many people already know what is the plot of the movie ...however what is important is the underlying message for humanity....

I personally believe that the day we stop caring for each other is the day we stop being called as humans....it exemplifies the fact that people like Gandhi and Mandela are true gems of the human race...people who believed in the power of mind and sacrificed their whole lives in service for their country...

So on that note for a feel good evening with family do watch INVICTUS....