Clint Eastwood is a good director and has tried to explore various directions and depths of the Human experience. Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima were two sides of a dark story and fine films in themselves. Pretty Baby and Unforgiven deserved their Oscars without question. I just don’t know what the purpose of Invictus is supposed to be. Rugby overcomes apartheid is a bit simplistic, but that’s the message. Matt Damon is good as the captain of the team. Morgan Freeman is Mandella and the best part of the movie is watching his characterization of the dissident turned president. He is depicted as an astute observer of human nature and utilizes that skill to try to bring some cohesion to a country with a long and terrible history of racial discrimination. That South Africa’s racial problems ended after winning the Rugby World Cup is not accurate. The gulf between the white minority and black majority remains. Eastwood will get some acclaim for this movie. It is well done with fine performances from all the actors involved. Is it a political film or a sports movie? It’s not enough of either and that is the reason for my ambivalence. Also the poem the title refers to really isn’t the title as the poet, Wm. Ernest Henley, never gave it a title and it was added by a later editor.