Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders
Every single song on the radio brings you down
Get a little sunshine on your face, pack a little bag
Hit the highway out of town
Smoke a few cigarettes, sip a little gin
Get a taste of the free world on your tongue
Put a smile on your face, hold up your chin
Shake hands with danger
In a crazy way
Like a strange twist of fate
In a crazy way
Things just come together
Jumping around like a fish out of water
Take a deep breath, settle down, you’ve been found
Time to figure out now who you want to be
There’s a change blowing in on the breeze, new in town
I know you’re trying to forget but everybody bleeds
There’s a song on the radio about love and loss right now
Put a smile on your face, hold up your chin
Shake hands with danger
In a crazy way I know a place where we can go
Like a strange twist of fate
In a crazy way
Things just come together
I know a place where we can go
The answer is yes to every no
And its not far from here
In a crazy way
Like a strange twist of fate
In a crazy way
Things just come together
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Invictus Review
Invictus the film is nowhere near as accomplished, heartfelt, deep and meaningful as the poem by Ernest Henly from which the film takes its name.
The film has all the hallmarks of a classic Hollywood beat up.
Based in South Africa, the film tells the tale of Nelson Mandela’s unification of South Africa, played out through the triumphant 1995 South African Rugby World Cup.
The South African Rugby Team are a bunch of useless hackers, losers, that is until Mr Mandela uses the team as his political football (stop it).
Nelson Mandela inspires the Captain, who in turn inspires the team, who in turn inspire and unify the whole nation. Enter triumphant music, Mr Mandela and team captain hold the world cup trophy aloft. Pause scene, fade to black.
Morgan Freeman portrays Nelson Mandela brilliantly, evoking the gentle nature of a man driven to make a difference. Equally, Matt Damon is convincing as football captain Francois Pienaar, buff and with a near flawless South African accent.
It helps if you’re a rugby union fan. If not you’ll tire of the slow motion football action. Some people have rated this film the best they have seen. I can’t see it.
Everybody loves an under dog story, and this one lays it on thick. A little too thick for me.
Invictus is a brilliant, timeless poem, a catalyst for inner strength that ultimately kept Nelson Mandela company through his prison term. As a film, unfortunately Invictus fails to justify the poems core, its rich heart of strength and possibility.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
The film has all the hallmarks of a classic Hollywood beat up.
Based in South Africa, the film tells the tale of Nelson Mandela’s unification of South Africa, played out through the triumphant 1995 South African Rugby World Cup.
The South African Rugby Team are a bunch of useless hackers, losers, that is until Mr Mandela uses the team as his political football (stop it).
Nelson Mandela inspires the Captain, who in turn inspires the team, who in turn inspire and unify the whole nation. Enter triumphant music, Mr Mandela and team captain hold the world cup trophy aloft. Pause scene, fade to black.
Morgan Freeman portrays Nelson Mandela brilliantly, evoking the gentle nature of a man driven to make a difference. Equally, Matt Damon is convincing as football captain Francois Pienaar, buff and with a near flawless South African accent.
It helps if you’re a rugby union fan. If not you’ll tire of the slow motion football action. Some people have rated this film the best they have seen. I can’t see it.
Everybody loves an under dog story, and this one lays it on thick. A little too thick for me.
Invictus is a brilliant, timeless poem, a catalyst for inner strength that ultimately kept Nelson Mandela company through his prison term. As a film, unfortunately Invictus fails to justify the poems core, its rich heart of strength and possibility.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
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