Skip to Content   Rec Room: Alex Smith: Invictus  December 14,
2009  Alex_Smith-small.jpg “You are hosting a dinner party for
five people including yourself. Who would you invite, dead or
alive?”  I’m terrible at that game, horrendous actually. Over
time, though, I have found one person who I always pick and just
leave the rest of the table empty, Nelson Mandela. Imagine how
excited I was when the trailer for Invictus, starring Morgan
Freeman and Matt Damon, came on in a preview for a recent movie
I saw.  Invictus is just as much the story of Mandela and his
initial struggle to fulfill the promises he made as a new
president for a divided country, as the story of a highly
physical sport and the underdog spirit. The whole movie is
passionate and displays Mandela at his prime, a strong leader
who uses incredible insight and a deep understanding of mankind
to unite the people of South Africa.  Invictus, to me, is both a
stunning representation of South Africa in the 1990s, the film
itself is shot with the same c