Saturday, March 29, 2014

Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom on DVD

I had wanted to see this movie on the big screen. However, I did have some reservations about it, because I knew that there was quite a bit of violence in it. But after having watched it on DVD, along with other movies about apartheid in South Africa, I thought it wasn't so bad.

This movie actually did go more in to what it was like for Mandela while he was in prison. That is what I really wanted to see. I wanted to know what, and perhaps how he went about his transformation. The movie did not go in to much of that, but you could see the outward signs of how he was changing.

After Mandela was out of prison, and in a meeting, he responded to a question about his being peaceful. He replied that it was the only way he could be.

Mandela had learned his life lessons very well, and there was no going back.

You can read more about this movie, and about this man's life here: Nelson Mandela.



Cheryl Paton