How did I like the movie.
Gandhi is a biographic film released in 1982 which portrays the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a former layer who turned his career down in the name of the non-violent movement for independence, social rights and freedom in India, as well as across the world. I find the film to be very true and, at times, heartbreaking, as in the scene of Gandhi’s burial or when he witnessed extreme poverty of his country while he was traveling.
What did I think about the movie/what is the best part in it for me.
The scene when young lawyer Gandhi is taken off the first-class cart of the train which was presumably only for white people was included in the film in order to show how inequality and discrimination affected people in India. There could have been thousands of such incidents at that time, and not only on the trains. Gandhi realized it and this very event is said to spark the fire of protest in him that kept burning for decades to come. I find the moment when Gandhi is talking to his fellow colleagues after the train incident and the events that follow it to be the most inspiring scenes in the film. The sequence in which Gandhi and the group of protesters he managed to gather are confronted by the group of mounted police officers is particularly moving because it shows the first time he and his supporters were faced with a real threat of violence and, nevertheless, have managed to tame their fear in the name of the common cause.
I find disturbing the fact that the scene of Gandhi’s assassination is shown twice, first in the beginning and then in the end of the film. I believe that it would be better to finish the story on a bright note instead of enveloping it with a brutal killing of one of the most influential and successful non-violent fighters for the human rights and equality in the world.
