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The movie of the week: October 20

Invictus - The invincible Clint Eastwood

Synopsis
Elected President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela launches national reconciliation process, which provides, among other things, the emergence of rugby, mainly white sport, at the black population. Tenacious and visionary, Mandela gave his support to the national team ahead of the Rugby World Cup to be held just South Africa: The year is 1995 and the team in green and gold configgerà final New Zealand contributing considerably to the end of apartheid.

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While this cinecircolo projects Invictus - The invincible , the 2009 film released worldwide in early 2010, the United States is already in theaters on new work Clint Eastwood , Hereafter, presented at the Toronto Film Festival a month and expected in January in Italian cinemas. Last May, then the director of both films has made eighty years and has been interviewed a few weeks ago where it stated have intentions of making films until his death. We thus hope gets as late as possible, if the price is having to watch every season one or even two Clint Eastwood films , a little 'what happens in the film festivals with the works of the centenary (and now immortal) Manoel De Oliveria.

Eastwood has accustomed us to a very prolific and a very high quality of his films. And even if jobs are not up to the last of his masterpieces, among all Unforgiven (1991), A Perfect World (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Mystic River ( 2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), with Invictus - The invincible confirmed to be the author's moral cinema, classic, and it has always been accurate.

What started as a project of his particular Morgan Freeman, who had a dream of a career in the interpretation of Nelson Mandela (which completes the task in admirable fashion), has become in the hands of a great author work on the morality of human actions and the ability to change history through the daily action. So this is not the praises of a popular character and unique, but the simple story of a human and political, Mandela, who can teach each of us how to intervene personally on their fate.

clear: Invictus - The invincible is perhaps among the least personal film Eastwood, a commissioned work too smart to be authentic (by chance arrived in the world of South Africans) and too mythicized for the entirely credible. But the criticism that can move are formal in nature, not, paradoxically, inspired or need. And for once, perhaps it is better to leave aside the sacrosanct request for aesthetic rigor and focus on the reasons that led Estwood and his screenwriter Anthony Peckham to adapt John Carlin's book and tell the story of how Mandela was able to unite a country in the name of rugby and of civil society after decades of apartheid.

In this sense, as written by Roberto Escobar, "the problems facing the film are two. The first show is already in the subtitle Italian. It is not invincible, Rolihlahla Mandela, Nelson said. Rather, it is not a win: his moral and political measure is not the (dangerous) the hero, but the common man that the difficulties and sufferings become a leader, as stated in his autobiography (Long Walk to freedom). The second danger concerns the way we "feel" the movie. " And that is the way by viewers - and viewers accustomed to Hollywood movies, the way is always the same with a narrative structure that makes the daily epic - we react to the events narrated by the film. Invictus - The invincible calls for emotion, participation, wonder at the extraordinary figure of Mandela himself is the protagonist of the film, the great leader of a nation, not in itself be a mythological figure or extraordinary. Mandela, by contrast, like the understatement, it does what is exciting in itself, not because he is looking for her, the emotion. Therefore, the look of the film on its main character is ambiguous, at the risk of misunderstanding, with one hand the desire to and exalt the other, the result, successful, to make it human, to paint him as an ordinary man who has been able to make extraordinary choices. "If I were no longer able to take risks," he says at one point the secretary, "I would not be a leader."

is then that perhaps the film is important for reasons far removed from its original intentions as a work that is not elegiac, created to celebrate a man and his people (for more through a sporting event which had long been imposed on suspicion of imbroglio, accused the South Africans to poison the food of New Zealand the evening before the World Cup Final), but as a work that "still" the emotions Mandela's moral awareness, his exceptional everyday. "And in this," says Escobar, "makes clear the moral consciousness of the director (...) in the consciousness of the individual is the value of each choice, and consciousness of many individuals can make the world a better place."

In the end, then, despite uncertainty stylistic surprising for an author of this stature, it seems that Eastwood has made Invictus - The invincible one of his most mature works: not between his best, but the most simple and direct, more open to the general risk emotion.