It leads him to agitate with like-minded individuals for the formation of an African National Congress (ANC). But it's supposed to have a profound effect on Mandela. This incident is poorly dramatized, happening in a flash. But that changes after a friend is beaten mercilessly just because he's drunk, feels queasy and lacks proper documentation. As a young lawyer, Mandela petitions for equality from a government that he soon discovers is only selectively fair. Mandela's life in "Long Walk to Freedom" is defined by pained optimism. The makers of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" have good intentions, but they don't effectively dramatize what they think makes their subject great. It emphasizes his 27-year imprisonment as the foundation of his credibility, making the dense layers of make-up that are used to make a typically captivating Idris Elba the proof of his character's struggle. The film reduces Mandela's ideas to impassioned sloganeering, and the repercussions of his ideas to unmoving montage sequences.
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