Research Paper On Invictus

The movie Invictus centers in the 1995 Rugby World Cup held in South Africa. As the new elected president, Nelson Mandela promises to unify his people who are currently divided in two groups: the white and the black natives. During the process of the movie we can see how President Mandela tries to reunite the divided people of South Africa to support the country’s Rugby team, the Springboks. Since rugby was traditionally a while men sport, not many black Africans supported this sport, there was only one black person playing for the Springboks. Despite the resistance and doubts of the black South African community, they finally started to show interest in the sport and to support the team. As the team continued to win more games, the South Africans support started to grow even more, not only in the black community, but also the whites supported even more the team. For the first time in history, the team achieved great results, winning in their own land the 1995 Rugby World Cup against one of their more powerful opponents; New Zealand. This victory brought happiness not only to the white community of South Africa but also to the black community, both groups cheerfully celebrated the victory of their team. After this victory the unexpected occurred, the groups started
President Mandela knew exactly how a team performance is able to revive or kill a person’s love for a country; the team is representing your country to the world and it is a representation of you and your people. when a team is able to revive and support your love and respect for your team it automatically motivate you to fight for your country and this is what happened to the South Africans during 1995’ world cup, the love and respect for their country was way more stronger than their racial differences, their love for their country was able to unify centuries divided groups to support a single