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Hi people, today I'm gonna talk about the legacy of Nelson Mandela and a film that I watched like one week ago. But I have to answer some questions so, here we go.

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

I almost like everthing about the film. I think it's an excellent movie because show to us very differents points of view of the same problem (apartheid in South Africa). For me every single actor and actress did a perfect job roling his or her character, like Heimdall (bad joke) as Mandela or Naomi Harris as Winnie Mandela. The film get me trapped all the time, and I'll admit that at one point I was near to the tears. I loved when characters talked in Africaan and I loved the music.

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

For me, we can see "various Mandelas" because is the natural evolution of the human. When we are young blood we are energetic people but when we get olders that energy disappear. So I think the movie tried (and did it well) to show us that evolution. Of course that evolution is different to every single person, we can see it on Winnie Mandela, she was not too much younger than Mandela and she had the same energy than younger Winnie.

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

I think Winnie's role was huge, she was more radical than Nelson. For me Winnie meant other point of view on the same problem, she was another way. The ANC in it's beginning  was like Winnie, radical, energetic, but when ANC's members get older, that energy vanished.

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?

For me as I said it in class, here in Chile we don't have a big revolutionary icon like Mandela in South Africa, I think in Chile we can see movementes, political parties like Concertación, but we can't see a name, maybe some littles figures like Ana Gonzales.