The beginning of the movie made me cringe.

The language, the coldness, the hate portrayed

between both the black and white families of South Africa. As a person who lived in a
peaceful country, its hard to imagine how it was during those times where there were
people who wanted to kill you just because of your language and the colour of your skin. It
also made me realize that this kind of thoughts has never entirely disappeared from the
world. It still lingers, even in our country it still lingers, only whether its low or high.
It is in a persons nature to always be prejudiced. Besides that,
When I watch this movie, at certain moments I find it unbearable to watch, not because the
movie is boring or there is no action or because it refers back to history but because it
throws it back in my face that even I myself am guilty of being prejudiced and fight for a side
that would benefit my side of the majority instead of the many different sides as a whole
unit.
It shows that when something is divided into 2 or more sides, one side would always have
the tendency to speak well of itself and use every opportunity given to speak badly or
destroy entirely something that represents the other side.
I believe that Mandela made a correct decision in restoring the Springboks. In the movie it
could be seen that many of the whites hated that there was a black president. To abolish
something that the Whites cherish would only increase their hate towards the Black
community.
Even though it is understandable for most of the Blacks to want to have a certain degree of
revenge, to have things that were previous denied from us. However, doing so does not
bring on unity, it brings about a never-ending cycle. Doing so is only because we seek to vent
personal feelings, as quoted by Mandela in the movie.