Eastwood’s ‘Invictus’ Offers a Perfectly-Timed Message of Harmony
by Carl KozlowskiMy father spent the first 31 years of his life in Communist Poland, leaving him with a distrust of major media that left him inclined to espouse this adage: “The only news you can be certain is accurate and untouched is sports.” He knew the universal appeal of sports as a diversion from the bleakness of life in even the most oppressed societies, and passed that lesson on to me from an early age.
**SPOILERS COMING***
Similar principles drove Nelson Mandela to use sports as a means of forgiveness and reconciliation when he made the dramatic climb from being a prisoner in the apartheid era of South Africa to becoming the nation’s first black president. And it is that powerful process that drives the new film “Invictus,” starring Morgan Freeman as the legendary leader and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, the leader of South Africa’s official rugby team, the Springboks, who led the team to victory in the 1995 World Cup Final in a season that provided the first major step towards national unity after decades of division.
As directed by Clint Eastwood, who at 79 is directing films with more ambition and scope than men a half-century younger than himself, “Invictus” expertly blends the personal stories of these two men with the epic scope of a nation’s rebirth and the visceral excitement of a sport’s world championship game. The result is a rousing spectacle that also offers substantive material to think about long after the movie is over and a message that should resonate with our nation’s own ongoing struggles with race.
The film jumps right into the day of Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 after 27 years in captivity. Despite some overly lax pacing in the first half-hour, it provides a quick series of insights into Mandela’s character and methods of leadership – particularly his desire to lead by personal example even in entrusting his life to a half-white, half-black security force in which the whites are former “special forces” policemen who had formerly been seen as the enemy of the nation’s black population.
Mandela’s first foray into sports comes when he receives word that a meeting of black activists has voted to put the all-white Springbok team out of existence. Racing to the meeting, Mandela defies the wishes of the crowd before him, risking the ire of staff members who don’t understand the primacy he’s placing on what they see as just a game. But Mandela knows that if he can show respect for the white population that is scared of revenge from the new black leadership on this level, it will pay off with major dividends as he tackles his society’s more far-reaching and intractable problems.
Calling Pienaar into his office, Mandela encourages him to take the team further than it seems capable of as a matter of national pride. And as the team comes together, improving with its new sense of purpose as well as opening its membership to its first black player, the black population slowly but surely joins in and starts to follow the Springboks with a newfound excitement that Eastwood showcases with an ever more propulsive narrative drive. Yet it never loses touch with intimately powerful moments such as a team field trip to Mandela’s prison island, where Pienaar movingly enters the cell where Mandela lost nearly three decades of his life and the prison yard where this man of intellect was forced to bust rocks on a daily basis.
“Invictus” is the perfect thinking-person’s film for the holiday season, due to its mix of solid writing by Anthony Peckham, who adapted the book “Playing the Enemy” by John Carlin, sterling performances and a message that is handled with restraint rather than heavy-handedness. Following Eastwood’s wildly entertaining 2007 film “Gran Torino” in its unflinching depiction of racial divisions and the effort to overcome them, it also offers an invaluable and utterly vibrant picture of humanity coming together that couldn’t be more timely.
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Sorry, I can't stomach Damon. I'll just read the Wikipedia breakdown.
What was it Spike Lee has said about Eastwood and his films?
Makes me wonder if the guy ever saw "Unforgiven", "Gran Torino", "The Outlaw Josey Wales", or… you know, any of them.
1. This movie has Matt Damon
2. Wasn't Mandela a terrorist? I realize he was in prison for a really long time, but didn't he actually commit some violent crimes.
3. I really like Freeman, but that doesn't make up for #1.
I'm terribly conflicted. It's an Eastwood-directed picture (+), starring lefties Matt Damon (-) and Morgan Freeman (-). It's about Nelson Mandela, who was a great leader (+), but it's going to depress me because of the way it acts as a foil for the Obama administration's irresponsible and damaging handling of race issues (-).
I'll probably vote "present" on it and see it on DVD. But I probably should support an Eastwood film.
Like I said, terribly conflicted.
I wonder if it touches on it being one of the most divided, dangerous, and violent countries in the world now? Don't know that I can give my money to anything involving Matt Damon, might wait for cable.
Seems like a decent movie, but sorry, I refuse to support Damon on any level. Sorry Mr. Eastwood, but there are plenty ofnon-Marxist actors out there that could've starred in Invictus….
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And today South Africa is much more peaceful and prosperous then during the hated white apartheid government so many Africans suffered under. Mandela has proved to be a great leader. Really?
My wife is South African, then British, then Canadian and finally American, so we will have to see it Damon or not and it will probably be a good watch.
Every white South African of 40 or below that I have met seems to hold Mandela in high regard since most thought the country was going to devolve into Zimbabwe, and though I would argue it's still heading in that direction at a slower pace it does seem that Mandela's leadership avoided an immediate collapse.
Morgan Freeman could be on screen for two hours straight playing a shower curtain and I would pay $10.00 to watch him….. as long as Matt Damon is nowhere to be found. I believe I will also take a pass on this one.
Eastwood is one of America's greatest film directors… unfortunately, folks in general won't quite see it that way until after he's gone. Long may we be from that day, I hasten to add!
Regardless of Morgan Freeman's political leanings, I've long considered him to be one of my favorite actors… if for nothing other than "Shawshank Redemption" and "Unforgiven".
I have one rule in life. I don't see Matt Damon films. That's it.
Sorry to say Carl, but Congress is now considering entering the sports arena too! You're father, sad to say, didn't count on our congress. . .
"Joe Barton’s Folly – Congress Has Nothing More Important to Do Than to Run College Football? "
http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/12/10/joe-bart...
I have to agree, he's definitely in my top 5 because of those 2 movies. But Damon's presence cheapens Invictus in my opinion. This one's going to have to wait for DVD or cable….
Me, too – very conflicted. Freeman/Damon vs Eastwood. I refuse to watch anything with Damon in it, and Freeman is also very anti-everything I believe in – what's a woman to do???
Can't stand Matt Damon,( although I found him convincing in the ' The Talented Mr. Ripley' film) and while Mandela appears to be heroic to those looking at him with one eye shut…I remember him being married to Winnie Mandela who was a big proponent of 'necklacing' anyone who opposed her train of thought…and maybe ANC Leader , Nelson's , too. I don't remember him speaking out against this form of torture. If you don't recall 'necklacing'…just 'google' it for a complete explanation.
I won't see Damonic movies.
Semi-tangent: When Mussolini spoke of Nationalism, this is what he meant. He wanted to inspire his countrymen to achieve greatness during the global depression. (which would ultimately benefit the State.) It is similar to Obama saying, "you mean to tell me, the country that put a man on the moon can't (fill in the blank)."
The left has used the Nationalism card to call anyone who loves their country a Fascist. However, again, this is a prime example of "extreme" nationalism which is part of the far left doctrine.
Not happening. Matt (can't see Russia from my house) Damon doesn't get a dime of my money. My principles are worth more than a 8 buck movie. Sorry Clint… maybe next time….
So Matt crawled out from our dear leader's kneewell to star in a movie. Big deal.
Mandela was in prison for a few decades for his involvement with the militant arm of the African National Congress (called UmKhonto we Sizwe) and some restaurant bombings they perpetrated. He wasn't a "political prisoner", he was a terrorist. The U.S. even under Slick Willie, has held the Mandela's at a distance.
Wasn't his wife, Winnie, a major player in the "Mandela United Football Club", and was convicted of kidnapping and assault in 1989? She also gave a speech about how necklacing (the practice of putting a tire around a person's neck, filling it with gasoline, and setting it on fire) was a preferred method of retribution. http://www.dispatch.co.za/1997/11/29/page%2011t.h...
But I'm sure none of that was mentioned in the film.
Wow, even here, people aren't aware of the true Mandela, or the state of South Africa today.
While apartheid was heinous, the system that has replaced it is … well, take how radical our Democrats our, and the agenda they're pushing — then turn it up about 10x, and you have South African policies. They fought systematic racism, then replaced it with … systematic racism, just the "right" kind. You know, the social justice, anti-whitey kind. How praiseworthy.
Which doesn't even get to my main beef with Mandela — that he is a fullblown, moonbat leftist. We're talking Reverend Wright type stuff here folks. And he isn't shy about his disdain for America, and its values we hold dear.
Basically, one right doesn't make up for a thousand wrongs imo. I'm sick of guys like this being propped up as a great icon of humanity — when in fact — their worldview is the very despicable thing we are fighting against. South Africa today is a good glimple into our future if we don't stop the leftists here.
I just clicked on comments to make the same point. I didn't even finish reading the review — stopped when I came to Damon. Even though Mandela was/is a communist, I think the stint in jail caused him to rethink his former ways and probably Morgan Freeman, whom I like, does him up proud.
Sorry, it is probably a good movie, but I can't stomach the sight of M.D.
I can't disagree or find fault with your comments and stance, guys… I'm probably going to pass on the film in theaters, too. Matt Damon is a key factor in that. He is in my mind a massive jackass with more money than sense, and possibly even less humility than he has sense.
Damon, while a decent actor, is so undeniably sanctimonious and so insufferably pompous.
I would gladly watch other actors of equal (or even less) talent who have less popularity and public approval regardless of their political leanings. I'd gladly watch an actor who is even MORE of a commie than Damon if he or she is a respectful actor who gets the job done and flaunts none of the smugness that Damon projects.
I admire Clint Eastwood as a man, an actor, and a director. I watch any film that involves Clint.
I admire Morgan Freeman in the same way as Clint. I watch any film that involves Morgan.
Though he is a good actor, I absolutely HATE matt damon's guts.
He is a traitor to our historic American Values, and Moral and Ethical Code.
I will eventually see this film for the sake of Clint & Morgan, and for the story itself, which needs to be told…
But not until it shows up free on tv.
I will not put any money in damon's pocket by going to a Theater, or buying a CD.
Clint should have known better.
matt damon is just to Extreme and Divisive ….
To be honest, Eastwood made some very mediocre movies as a director. But then who doesn´t. I do have one problem with Gran Torino – otherwise an excellent movie – and that is: what happens after he dies? Sure, this one gang goes away, but there are others gangs. Won´t they just move in and start victimizing the Hmong worse than ever?
It must have meant alot to him. He loves them kneepits.
What he loves is a tadpole smoothie out of a meat straw, just like his fellow traveler, Barney.
Wonder if Matt Damon has any idea how hated he is….if not maybe someone needs to fill him in. You never know, he might STOP with the stupid leftist, socialists crap!!!
A fisting they will go
a fisting they will go
Hi-ho-watch his cherry go
a fisting they will go.
Seriously? This (low) level of discourse does Big Hollywood no favors.
The Lefty thought process is so ingrained in Damon's head that I don't see him changing, and he has enough money and is connected enough, professionally, that he'll find work and won't change. From his point of view…there's no need for change.
Possible, but I think, to Eastwood, irrelevant because the movie's purpose seemed to be aimed at telling the story of Walt Kowolski. With him dead, the story reached its conclusion. At least that's what I think…
It's worth thinking about Gordo… but I suspect that since Tao got the Gran Torino, he takes on the mantle of Walt's better characteristics. Not only that, but the neighborhood and the family probably watch out a little more, witnesses speak up more.
But the more important element is what happens to Su and Tao.
It's a great assimilation story… Walt's Hmong neighbors, in particular the two kids, learn a bit more of Walt and American traditions and responsibilities in American society. Walt obviously gets the chance to be a father with a kid who repects him and learns how to deal with him.
My Bad.
It's ok to promote this behavior to our kids, but we can't make fun of it in Hollywood. Like they give a rat's ass.
Wait 25 years, and Hollywood can film the sequel were the President of Mexico invites the Los Angeles Lakers to play for the championship in order to unite the citizens of Aztlan (formerly known as the SouthWest).
Could it be that Eastwood, being the class act that he is, is trying to help Damon resurrect his career and credibility with the American people?
Still, Damon is one of three people I REFUSE to support with my movie dollars. Never will.
So one man was suppose to take care of all of the gang problems in the area?? He gave his life to insure that those he cared about would be protected after they arrested his murders. In my opnion the Hmong would understand that and testify against those that killed him and any that come after.
I thought it was funny.
Morgan Freeman also supports Wetlands for wildlife hunting so he can't be a true liberal.
He has been accused of being complicit in some torture, such as "necklacing" , and of promoting violence. I read a speech by him once which did certainly seem to promote violence. It's hard to say how much slower change would have happened without the violence, but he certainly doesn't appear to be the Ghandi he's represented as. Maybe he was later in life, I don't know, but I really would appreciate people portraying him as the complex, imperfect man that he was, and not some kind of saint.
2 rights ( Eastwood and Freeman) unfortunately don't equal 1 really really wrong ( Matt Daammmonnn) = I won't see it until I can rent it for $1
Like most posters here, there is no way I'll watch this movie or any movie w/Matt Damon. The only film, I thought he was any good in was when he played the anti-semitic creep in "School Ties" with Brenden Fraser. As I don't think it was stretch for him to play that charachter.
It's my nature. I was the kid your mom wouldn't let you play with.
To his credit, it distanced himself from his wife when he got out of prison. I don't remember the details — in fact, he may have divorced her.
You're right, Minnie has either had a make-over for the film or she's left out entirely.
Saw the trailer & thought, "Another 'Remember the Titans'." Which was good, but spawned a collection of coypcat films. Okay, okay. got it the first time around.
Yes, yes, it's based on a true story, but Hollywood is SO predictable. Morgan Freeman would be okay, except that he's Hollywood's "Official Moral Conscience Character Actor." or "God." In Hollywood earthly terms the closest peson to "God" is … "Nelson Mandela."
The real Mandela is a socialist, but a genuine idealist. To his credit he divorced WInnie who was a female thug as soon as he got out of prison. Charmingly, he remarried to the widow of the former president of… oh dear, is it Mozambique or Zambia? her name is Grace & they made a much nicer couple. Mandela now retired, personally went into the burning streets last year to exhort S. Africans to stop lynching refugee/illegal immigrant ZImbabweans, so he's got a heart, unlike many other politicians.
Gandhi isn't who you think he is either. He was also a communist, educated in Moscow.
Damon was unwatchable BEFORE he ramped up his detestable quotient with hosannas for leftist pedagogue Howard Zinn. I can't even tolerate to look at the poster for this film.
I'm sure it is a good movie, but this is the issue, actors and actresses are a product. I base my product purchases on real or perceived images. Matt Damon stands for everything I dislike and is proud of it, thus until he changes his tune, I or my family will never see a movie he is in. Hollywood needs to get a clue because we are legion.
I would strongly agree.
The author of Playing the Enemy, John Carlin, wrote an article for The Independent of London suggesting that Flight 93 ("Let's roll") was a hoax. Cruelly (the Englishman would say ironically, but I'm American and have no sense of irony whatsoever), the man who led the storming of the cockpit was a rugby player.
Winne Mandela's most famous quote is: "With our necklaces and our boxes of matches, we will set South Africa free." This was not about retaliating at the "white oppressors" of S. Africa, but about viciously murdering other blacks that did not agree with the ANC.
Nelson Mandela was far from a "political prisoner" or "prisoner of conscience." He was a domestic terrorist. He was arrested with explosives and the plans for government buildings that he and his group were going to destroy. So, basically, Nelson was S. Africa's very own Timothy McVeigh. Mandela and his wife aligned themselves closely to the Soviet Union and Communist ideology, and I suspect he does.
Also, the Dutch Boers were in S. Africa before Nelson Mandela's tribe. Mandela's tribe was actually brought to S. Africa as slaves of another black tribe. Theoretically, if not for the "white oppressors" and the system of Apartheid (which kept black tribes from slaughtering each other) Nelson Mandela would have been born a slave and would still be one.
I can see nothing to celebrate in the man's life and no reason for this movie to exist. It is sad that Clint Eastwood has either been brainwashed by his lefty friends or feels he has to throw them a sop for continued respectability. It makes perfect sense for Matt Damon to be in this movie since he is such a leftist turd-sicle himself.
I will absolutely NOT give my money to Matt Damon for his communistic agenda that leads this country into oblivion! Matt Damon is a treasonous punk!!! And then add fuel to this fire in my mind, Zinn, the teacher of my past that taught me that my grandchildren would be wearing uniforms just like the great and magnificent communist Russia! No, don't go and add the money train to this agenda, they all have enough of our money!
My two favorite Freeman roles, juxtaposed here, "Shawshank Redemption" and "Driving Miss Daisy". For those two I can pretty much overlook Freeman's politics.
Not so Damon's for anything he has played in.
I wonder Eastwood's rationale for selecting him..
Freeman probably would make a better Mandela than Mandela. However these "political history" films never interest me. More often than not they are slanted in some way to push a certain agenda. I have more important things to do than waste time with movies that. Like… going to see a stupid sparkly vampire film!!
…..Obama films of the future……
Awww, Man!
Did you really have to bring those up?
Now?
It's almost Christmas!!
is the picture that accompanies this piece an example of the "fisting" everyone is talking about?!
I'm hoping and praying that some of Eastwood's and Morgan Freeman's class rubbed off on Maaatt Daaamon.
In fact, I'm hoping and praying that's the main reason Eastwood cast the trumped up little shit.
Ditto
You're right erp, you would never know Ghandi's politics from what you normally hear about him. I am no fan of Ghandi's politics. All I meant was Ghandi did in fact promote non violence, unlike Mandela who is merely portrayed as being non violent.
The Vice President of South Africa raped an AIDS activist (who is herself HIV positive). He had known her since she was a little girl. At the trial his supporters burned a photo of the victim and chanted "burn the b#tch". The VP is so enlightened that he says he took a shower after the unprotected sex to "cut the risk" of getting HIV.
I hate to be judgmental, but they still seem a bit backwards. But gee it's nice they had a winning rugby team.
This is one of the most insanely paranoid, delusional web sites on the internet.
Jesus…can you people hear yourselves? Nelson Mandela is a terrorist? Forget left/right politics, what in the name of God is wrong with you people?
I feel the same way. Freeman is truly gifted in a way that despite his politics (which I'm sure are liberal) he does not come across as a pompous ass like Damon does.
I realize most in Hollywierd lean left at a 45 degree angle. But, that will not stop me from viewing their work should I deem it to be something of merit, unless they continually show me they are the above mentioned pompous ass, not to mention generally ignorant. Matt fits that bill perfectly. So even though I would probably find this film to be something of merit, and Morgan Freeman is quite possibly one of the greatest actors of our time, I would not be able to force myself to pay money to see it in theaters.
Freeman? Not too bad by Hollywood standards. After all, he has said that the best way to end racism is to stop talking about it- not exactly the usual lib line!
I'll see it because of Clint, notwithstanding Maaaat Daaaaaaaaaamon.
Zero! Matt Damon no chance!
What's wrong with us is that we know the truth and don't believe the propaganda that you seem to. Don't judge people by their skin color. Non-whites really can be bad characters too.
Sabotage (bombing I think?) and conspiring against the government were the official charges if I'm not mistaken. The only reason I remember that is from a high school report I did on apartheid. And who knows if that is correct? My report was in 85, so the info I dug up was probably more muddled then.
Nelson Mandela divorced from Winnie over a decade ago:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18170308.html
Despite the involvement of Mr. Eastwood and Mr. Freeman, I just can't stomach the thought of a film being poisoned by the presence of someone who shows such contempt for and willingly buys into the revisionist history of the USA as does Mr. Damon in conjunction with Howard Zinn. The only thing people of their ilk suceed at is keeping me and my hard earned entertainment dollars out of my local cineplex.
[Nelson Mandela was far from a "political prisoner" or "prisoner of conscience." He was a domestic terrorist. He was arrested with explosives and the plans for government buildings that he and his group were going to destroy. So, basically, Nelson was S. Africa's very own Timothy McVeigh.]
Some would argue Mandela is more a modern day Nat Turner. Read more on Turner here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner
Well said. He was a terrorist and an unrepenant Communist. South Africa is worse today and getting much worse. He is no hero and should be shunned by decent people everywhere.
Google "necklacing", Guest. It's definitely terror inspiring. And a practice that happened under Nelson Mandela's responsibility, if not direct orders.
Okay, I just saw an ad for this movie. It looks awesome, I can't wait to see it.
BUT- okay now you guys have to be honest with me here… Morgan Freeman will not disappoint I'm sure. And I'm psyched that this is in Clint Eastwood's hands as well.
However, you know you guys to admit it: The reason this movie will be totally huge is (a True American Movie Hero)…MATT DAMON!
As noted, Mandela is Hollywood's "god." The sort of "Morgan Freeman-like Official Moral Character Poltician." SO, what a "surprise" to see Morgan Freeman playing Mandela. He's already played "God."
Mandela served time for terrorist bombings, but he's nowhere of the cut of say, Robert Mugabe or Weatherman William Ayers, for that matter. It's not clear at all whether he had anything to do with his wife's Winnie's nasty necklacing & the beating death of that young boy by her gang. She was obviously using Mandela's prestige to set up her own power base. He's just a GUY, not a god, & did some things right, but he's a socialist/communist, so his economic ideas have not been helpful to S. African development. Been three presidents since he retired, all socialist/communists less charming than Mandela, & crime is horrible, & there're plenty of talk of seizing white-owned farms as was done in Zimbabwe.
Hollywood is into very unhealthy practice of idol-worship, this case Mandela. Tedious Matt Damon needs to prove his "tolerance" bonafides, as if no one but he is.
HAHAHAAA.
(don't even start with the dumb comments… that was what we call a J O K E . It was for your benefit I hope you got a laugh.)
Does Mandela actually ~fess up~ to being a Marxist in the movie version of him?
Damon is a tool. Pass.
excerpt from
"The problem is that Mandela has achieved next to nothing in his relatively short political career which saw South Africa
rapidly decline to the status of the world's most violent and crime-ridden country. To add to the confusion, is the
fact that his greatest friends are communists and Muslim dictators like Fidel Castro, Moammar Qaddafi, Yasser Arafat
and Saddam Hussein. His ex-wife Winnie Mandela, whom he quickly jettisoned when it became clear she was a
considerable embarrassment to his political career, is a self-confessed advocate of terrorism and violence, and has even
committed murder. Nelson and Winnie Mandela are an African version of Bill and Hillary Clinton."
Like most people who've commented here, I can separate a creep like Damon from someone like Morgan Freeman who may be a liberal, but doesn't go around spewing vile lies about Bush and our country.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your comment. I was hoping someone would talk about this side of Mandela. I admit I only recently learned of his past. But his wife Winnie was worse. She endorsed "necklacing" which was the practice of taking a tire, placing it around a person, covering them with gasoline and setting it on fire. The victim would be burned alive. Winnie once said, "with our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country." Again, many victims were black "sellouts" or "traitors" according to Mandela.
But shhhh. We can't talk about this. It's politically incorrect. And racist. And I'm just waiting for a troll to chime in with some kind of moral equivalency arguement containing the words "Bush" and "torture."
Are there any scenes of Winnie Mandela and her thugs "necklacing" anyone?
Nelson Mandela is a terrorist.
Just because he smiles and pats the hand of the white person to paraphrase obama does not make him a nice man.
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~springbk/enemy.html
I don't dislike Hollywood leftists….but I hate those who dare to destroy our country by promoting the likes of Zinn; and do not choose to support their films. However this is a Clint Eastwood project and his reputation stands or falls based on ticket sales. The actors do not share in anything other than their own paycheck; Damon was hired for a salary only and certainly was not given any gross points in the films revenues or profits. Having said all this I should then go to see the film….but unfortunately the hate thing creeps in and because I hate the likes of Damon who is the ultimate anti-American, anti-Capitalist, anti-Palin, and anti-Jesus, I cannot. Hopefully by not buying a ticket Clint will not cast his likes ever again. America: Love it or Leave it.
The thing is, does anyone say" "We need Matt Damon for that role"? Maybe for "The Talented Mr Ripley", but I doubt it for many other roles. There are three actors who could play every role Damon gets.
Wow Cgntv said a funny! lol
I'll stay home and read a book…..
The Shanty town still exists in South Africa. That's all we need to know about how successful Nelson Mandela was in turning around his country. Cardboard houses for ALL!
I do not watch Matt damon movies either. Never will and my daughter worked on this film. She laughs at me, but public opinion is what counts and Hollywood doesnt give an F what we think anymore. When we stop going to their movies and substitute them for video games and TV-set top box interaction games and shows that do not feature any Hollywood actors, they might turn around but it will be too late.
Indeed, they can keep their rat's asses so long as they stay away from my kid.
Free Speech is a historical American Value. What you are basically saying is because you disagreed with Damon's Right to Free Speech, that somehow Damon is a "traitor"? So he didn't like Palin, so freaking what?
People would not have this perception that conservatives are thin-skinned little children who can't tolerate being disagreed with if you all didn't throw around the "traitor" slurs as a reaction to every perceived slight.
Why exactly will you NEVER support Damon? What is it that he did that was soooooo unforgivable.
Too bad you're so thin-skinnned, the Departed and the Bourne movies were outstanding.
Hey, chuckles, how about you let your family make their own decisions about what movies they get to see? Or are you one of those "I, and I alone am the final word" type of patriarchs?
I'm still that kid, but now, my toys are quite lethal.
Rat's asses are actually on the eurotrash menu.
There is a far cry's difference in expressing dislike for someone and co-producing a piece of propaganda that says our constitution was written by nefarious people for nefarious purposes. The Dixie Chicks fall into the former category and people overreacted. Matt Damon is in the latter and is scum.
Easy as that huh? Apartheid bad, ANYTHING else good. Reagan didn't get to choose between apartheid and utopia. He got apartheid or terrorists. Now your hero Jimma will always side with the terrorists. But Reagan, being the practical guy had to make grown up choices. By the way, we prefer Ronaldus Maximus.
wow! Damon you better keep your political views to yourself. Your acting career is o-v-e-r.
Sorry man…I have no sympathy for a KGB sponsored operative who still hates whites,plus,look at South Africa from 1994 to now. It wen't from a beautiful place to a total crime ridden ghetto with a higher then average car jacking and rape percentages then most civilized countries,Also once the ANC got power,guns were outlaweds and white were left defenseless against attacks by hoardes ofso called "liberated" animals.
No thanks
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