The World Rugby Cup is providing yet another example that even the domain of sport is being brought under imperialist pressure, whereby the modern norms of a level playing field in competition and sportsmanship, solidarity and mutual respect, some of the highest ideals of humanity, are being dest...
Freeman unsurprisingly plays Mandela, a role he was perhaps tailor made for and Damon plays Francois Pienaar, the captain of the Springboks. It's based on a book by John Carlin (Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation) although the film only really uses the ...