The ANC's protests are filmed with context-free awe. His voice cuts through the garbled voices of white radio announcers, the ones who make major events like the Sharpeville Massacre sound distant and unreal. Still, Mandela is a romantic icon, and the makers of "Long Walk to Freedom" understandably treat him as such. He is shown having an affair with a woman, but that subplot is only important in that it adds pathos to his story it suggests that Mandela has skeletons in his closet that the movie isn't inclined to examine. This is in spite of the filmmakers' half-hearted attempts to make him appear human. Up until his trial and imprisonment, Mandela is treated as a hallowed figure. His oration is that much more powerful because of Elba's delivery if I could vote to put Elba in office, I would stuff the ballot boxes. With these peers, he moves crowds to protest with his speeches. 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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