- In general, what did you like and
dislike about the film?
What I liked the most in this film was the fact of showing, or maybe the
try of showing, every single fact that made Mandela the man or figure he is nowadays.
Despite of this, the film becomes really hard for seeing or following, because
the facts go on too fast. In general, I think this is a good film in the way
they show the history, and also by the plays of the different actors.
- In your own words, how would you
compare the "various Mandelas;" the ones from the article and the one
from the film?
I must admit that I never knew so
much about Mandela, just the regular things that everyone knows, as how much he
meant to the “freedom” of South Africa and the end of Apartheid, but reading the
article and watching this film, I realized that Mandela got different faces and
thoughts as his life was changing and passing by. For example, a young Mandela
was more enthusiastic about a military way to abolish the apartheid, but as
time passed by and he got old, his beliefs changed and found out that a pacific
way was better for all South Africa.
- What was the role that Winnie Mandela
played in the film? Think about the contrast between her and the other ANC
members.
At the beginning of the film, Winnie
Mandela is shown as a sweet girl who believes in changes, but always as a
pacifist one. As time went by, Winnie became a strong powerful woman committed to
fight against the Apartheid and for all the black people. She becomes a leader
for those who fought in a military way, because she believed that the fight had
to be equal in every single term. Although, she trusted the ANC and how they
were leading the fight, she decided to stand by the non-pacific way and separate
from Mandela and his thoughts.
- How do you compare the role of Nelson
Mandela and the African National Congress in the struggle against the apartheid
and in the post-apartheid South Africa to the Concertación and their role in
the struggle against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and in post-dictatorial
Chile?
Something similar about this two
parties are that they were the agents of change in times of abuse, torture and mistreatment.
Also, both had ideological problems inside of his respective party and this
meant the fraction of it. Anyways, both were so powerful and determined in their
aims, that they meant the change in Chile as in South Africa. Even though laws
and who is in charge of the countries has change, society is still thinking as
they were thinking before (apartheid and dictatorship), which makes that
changes are slow and there is still work to do.
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