Invictus (1st half of the Movie)

The challenges for the characters in the movie Invictus are all about understanding. The whites have to learn to accept the fact that black people are equal to them. They are being asked to change their views that have been imparted upon them ever since they were little children and that is very hard to do with any idea especially one so radical. The challenges for the black community and Nelson Mandela are all about forgiveness because if they were to apply the same type of rule the whites did to them, the white people would hate them as much as the black's hate the whites. In order for them to live in unity the black community must forgive and be the bigger race, they are asked to put aside years of prejudice and attacks and there is no way that is an easy feat to accomplish. The security guards is a perfect example, the black guards have to work with men who used to work on a task force that tracked black people down. The white men have extreme prejudice programmed into their brains and they have to forget that and work with the blacks, which they are probably ridiculed for in the white community.