Trailer Park: Invictus
Clint should have ended with Gran Torino. Thank God we have enlightened minorities to show us all the way we oughta be. I’m sure that’s unfair, but then — as I love to tell my kids — such is life.
This looks to be equal parts Victory (I still think Pele should get a special Oscar), Biko, and post-apartheid Indiana Hoosiers. I do like Eastwood and Freeman, but I equally detest Matt Damon and the poem Invictus.
Feh. Any South African apartheid movie that doesn’t have Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington in it, or doesn’t have Tsotsi as its title, or has Matt Damon in non-marionette mode, and I’m likely not in the audience.
Too bad Mandela saddled South Africa with a crippling socialist welfare state and affirmative action on steroids.
Wasn’t Invictus Caligula’s favorite horse and Senator? (I have no idea of any poem by such name, so I have no idea if I’m being sarcastic.)
No post about Damon’s project on the History Channel? It’s an adaptation of Howard Zinn’s book, “The People’s History.” You know, ‘cuz America sucks and all. Hasn’t done anything good for the poor and oppressed. Check out the line up of actors he’ll got performing dramatic reading. http://www.history.com/content/people-speak
“Invictus” is a famous poem by English poet William Ernest Henley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley, which includes the line, “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
A poem which, in my opinion (entering Old Grouch mode), has done as much to destroy human souls as the works of John Lennon.
Henley was an amputee. I found it interesting to learn recently that he was Robert Louis Stevenson’s model for Long John Silver.