http://africasacountry.com/2009/12/17/review-invictus/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:10:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://africasacountry.com/2009/12/17/review-invictus/comment-page-1/#comment-1238 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:16:50 +0000 http://africasacountry.com/?p=2990#comment-1238 I finally saw Invictus last night. I agree with what your filmmaker friend has said. I would also like to raise a concern about the representation of Chester, the colored teammate who was definitely cast as black man in the film. This is a continuing problem with Hollywood films about apartheid SA, they stick to the simple black/white dichotomy, never addressing the roles other “groups” had in the struggle.
I saw Mos Def perform a free concert in Mitchell’s Plain last April. To a crowd of predominantly colored people, he kept throwing out old struggle references; black consciousness, Steve Biko, etc. – the crowd was NOT buying it. I thought at one point I heard crickets. Because of pop media, the discourse on apartheid has been a black/white struggle. Is this why Mos was inclined to do these things? Did he automatically associate “township” with black struggle? I’m still concerned that his “first visit to SA” wasn’t what he thought it’d be…

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