Winnie Mandela Movie Themes

Set in rural South Africa the film Winnie Mandela Details and outlines the life of Winne Madikiezla-Mandela. The film focuses on apartheid in South Africa and Winnies struggle for the freedom of her husband Nelson Mandela later to be known as one of South Africa’s most prominent leaders. I believe that the main purpose of the film is to introduce the world to Winnie Mandela as a political leader and activist not just the wife of Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. There are many themes present in Winnie Mandela The movies focuses on four major themes: Political Injustice, War, Love and Social Injustice. throughout the film White South Africans are seen as being superior to the Black South Africans not once in the film until the very end do you see someone of color in a respected position of power. The police officers were white and so was the military personnel and …show more content…
The movie does a great job of introducing Mrs. Mandela as a political leader to someone who may not be aware of who she is. In my opinion I believe that they should have used South African actors and Actresses to portray the main characters I think that Jennifer Hudson did a great job with her role but on the other hand I believe that they definitely should have recruited someone different to act as Nelson Mandela honestly I could not get over Terrance Howards extremely fake accent for some reason to me it just threw the entire movie off but other than that the film was excellent. film was directed by Darrell Roodt. “The screenplay, co-written by Roodt and Andre Pieterse, is based on the book Winnie Mandela: A Life, by Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob, a former journalist.” According to Producer Andre Pieterse “The film was made based on a screenplay that was well researched without any interference, without any influence from any of the main