Thursday, December 31, 2009

Invictus


Clint Eastwood's Invictus is from start to finish a paean to human decency. The film exploits (in the positive sense of that term) every visual and musical cue to rouse the audience as it tells its tale of a heretofore pitiful South African rugby team's battle for world domination, and respectability, in 1995. The team's struggle was emblematic of the nation's own quest under the leadership of Nelson Mandela.

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August Wilson's Century Cycle -- Gem of the Ocean

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