long way to freedom

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?

In general I dislike the beginning of the movie because it was really slow, like nothing interesting was happening, despite it show how was Nelson Mandela with her first wife I was getting asle

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film?

In general I dislike the beginning of the movie because it was really slow, like nothing interesting was happening, despite it show how was Nelson Mandela with her first wife I was getting asleep. Even when Mandela get to know Mandy was getting a touch of poor romanticism that was totally unnecessary or could have been better.

I neither like the figure of Mandela they built in the film, in specific about this men being the hero that for his pureness of ideals got to save Sout Africa and destroy the apartheid, almost showing that he was the majority reason of the end of the apartheid. Although, it was show in the film the strike and the struggle of the people in the street it was like they need Nelson Mandela to get something.

But I like they story that was told in the film, as the movie advance everything start to get more intense and the characters also do their work by giving the emotion. The construction around Mindy that was done is really interesting for the way it was show how she was in the head of the strike in the street. Also, I can’t deny I feel touched by the message of the movie of no hate and the abolishment of the race differences.

2. In your own words, how would you compare the "various Mandelas;" the ones from the article and the one from the film?

Well, I would say that the Mandela in the film it helps to continue with the myths of this historical personage, and the idea of a super leader that save and entirely country and that everything change for better. But is true that add some complexity to the idea of him, by adding the figure of Winnie and how was her leadership in the street the one that gave him more importance and the freedom.

3. What was the role that Winnie Mandela played in the film? Think about the contrast between her and the other ANC members.

In the film she started to play an important role in the story after she was retained and jailed for a big while by the police, because that was the point when she got more notorious and sick and tired of the treatment she received from the authority and she started to act and be the leader of the strike in the street. The contrast with the others members of ANC was her distrust on the white major party that always has respond with brutal repression, also her intention to continues with the struggle through the weapon until the revolution.

4. How do you compare the role of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in the struggle against the apartheid and in the post-apartheid South Africa to the Concertación and their role in the struggle against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and in post-dictatorial Chile?

In these two case, one of the major reason of why the hegemonic system started to be in a big crisis it was for the fight of the people in the street and that the times were changing, for example the pression of other countries with economic sanction against the apartheid or the end of the Cold War. And during this struggle time, both the ANC and the Concertation were the movements that attracted the force of the movements by promise of the changes that were being wanted. This two politic movement that become a party (or in the case of Concertation an agglomeration of different parties) compromise the willing of change to the ones that since the past had the power and the domination, in part because those were the ones with the guns and also for being attracted by the neo-liberalism that kept  the system.

ep. Even when Mandela get to know Mandy was getting a touch of poor romanticism that was totally unnecessary or could have been better.

I neither like the figure of Mandela they built in the film, in specific about this men being the hero that for his pureness of ideals got to save Sout Africa and destroy the apartheid, almost showing that he was the majority reason of the end of the apartheid. Although, it was show in the film the strike and the struggle of the people in the street it was like they need Nelson Mandela to get something.

But I like they story that was told in the film, as the movie advance everything start to get more intense and the characters also do their work by giving the emotion. The construction around Mindy that was done is really interesting for the way it was show how she was in the head of the strike in the street. Also, I can’t deny I feel touched by the message of the movie of no hate and the abolishment of the race differences.

2. In your own words, how would you compare the "various Mandelas;" the ones from the article and the one from the film?

Well, I would say that the Mandela in the film it helps to continue with the myths of this historical personage, and the idea of a super leader that save and entirely country and that everything change for better. But is true that add some complexity to the idea of him, by adding the figure of Winnie and how was her leadership in the street the one that gave him more importance and the freedom.

3. What was the role that Winnie Mandela played in the film? Think about the contrast between her and the other ANC members.

In the film she started to play an important role in the story after she was retained and jailed for a big while by the police, because that was the point when she got more notorious and sick and tired of the treatment she received from the authority and she started to act and be the leader of the strike in the street. The contrast with the others members of ANC was her distrust on the white major party that always has respond with brutal repression, also her intention to continues with the struggle through the weapon until the revolution.

4. How do you compare the role of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in the struggle against the apartheid and in the post-apartheid South Africa to the Concertación and their role in the struggle against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and in post-dictatorial Chile?

In these two case, one of the major reason of why the hegemonic system started to be in a big crisis it was for the fight of the people in the street and that the times were changing, for example the pression of other countries with economic sanction against the apartheid or the end of the Cold War. And during this struggle time, both the ANC and the Concertation were the movements that attracted the force of the movements by promise of the changes that were being wanted. This two politic movement that become a party (or in the case of Concertation an agglomeration of different parties) compromise the willing of change to the ones that since the past had the power and the domination, in part because those were the ones with the guns and also for being attracted by the neo-liberalism that kept  the system.