Amandla Wamagama | The Power of Words | By Bonilla

1. In general, what did you like and what did you dislike about the film? I'm starting with the disliking first. It was a nice movie, but I couldn't stop thinking about how legitimate it was. Since Mandela's biographer himself said that this narration wasn't as geniune as it claims to be plus the fact that the film was so surreal makes me also doubt the authenticity of the book written by James Gregory in which it is based, this kills a great part of the essence the movie offers. Now, if I put that legitness drama to the sidelines, I completely enjoyed the story and felt really invested into the plot.  Also, I liked the characters, how they're portrayed and especially their development. We can  see how Gregory goes from someone that is completely loyal to the brutality of the apartheid regime to someone that knows that things can be better for everybody alongside his family and was really regretful about the things he did (for example, ''sending...

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film? This film, being the first ever movie I’ve seen about Mandela´s life, found a place in my heart because it shows us a more sensitive Mandela. We get to know his emotional side alongside his relationships with his first wife, some lovers and Winnie Mandela in special. Also, we get to see how these relations affected his way of acting and the movements he fomented. This movie not only speaks about the things Mandela did for South Africa, but most importantly how he felt when doing them, including joy and happiness for succeeding and sadness, disappointment and impotence when he failed. I kind of dislike the fact that the culmination of the Apartheid is not really denoted, it just s fades unnoticed. The ending of the movie also seems a little bit rushed to me, black on black violence is at its worst peak, but Mandela tells them to go to vote and suddenly they stop killing each other and then he goes on to become presid...