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Mandela's Journey to Freedom

The film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom tells the story of Nelson Mandela from joining the African National Congress in the 1940s to fight against apartheid, to his imprisonment for 27 years, and his eventual release and election as President of South Africa. While the film rigorously depicts Mandela's life, it remains cautious and avoids tensions, portraying a tidy legend. It shows Mandela's spirit remaining unbroken during his imprisonment as his struggle continued internationally. However, his wife Winnie's determination hardened into violence over the years. Ultimately, Mandela emerged as the renowned leader who found a way to achieve a peaceful victory for South Africa without staining the country.

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Mandela's Journey to Freedom

The film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom tells the story of Nelson Mandela from joining the African National Congress in the 1940s to fight against apartheid, to his imprisonment for 27 years, and his eventual release and election as President of South Africa. While the film rigorously depicts Mandela's life, it remains cautious and avoids tensions, portraying a tidy legend. It shows Mandela's spirit remaining unbroken during his imprisonment as his struggle continued internationally. However, his wife Winnie's determination hardened into violence over the years. Ultimately, Mandela emerged as the renowned leader who found a way to achieve a peaceful victory for South Africa without staining the country.

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MANDELA: LONG WALK TO

FREEDOM
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is a conservative film about a radical man, a
movie so bowed down by the weight of responsibility that it occasionally
trudges when you wish it would dance. At various stages of his turbulent life,
Mandela inspired fear and loathing, adoration and awe. But Long Walk to
Freedom, although made with rigour and intelligence, is largely content to print
the legend and tidy the tensions.

Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National
Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid system's brutal
tyranny proves useless for his people. Forced to abandon peaceful protest for
armed resistance after the Sharpeville Massacre, Mandela pays the price when
he and his comrades are sentenced to life imprisonment for treason while his
wife, Winnie, is abused by the authorities herself. Over the decades in chains,
Mandela's spirit is unbowed as his struggle goes on in and beyond his captivity
to become an international cause. However, as Winnie's determination hardens
over the years into a violent ruthlessness, Nelson's own stature rises until he
becomes the renowned leader of his movement. That status would be put to
the test as his release nears and a way must be found to win a peaceful victory
that will leave his country, and all its peoples, unstained.

Positive Aspects: I now have a much better appreciation for all the suffering,
discrimination and pain that was caused.
Nelson Mandela gave up most of his adult life for a cause which has now come
full circle and SA is now better off for it, mostly.
A powerful movie, that shows a man more passionate about equality and
human rights than his own well being, and sadly at the detriment of his own
family.

Negative Aspects:

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