Bab Gandhi

Wellington 2022-01-26 08:03:55

Quietly spinning "Babu" (the meaning of Dad, the honorific name for him in India) is presented very convincingly in this film. The climax of a lifetime is concentrated in more than 3 hours. The sage is also slowly changing, from not being good at public speaking at the beginning to being good at it, from being brave to face mistakes to sublimation. This change can be seen intuitively from the clothing. When he was in South Africa, he wore a suit and leather shoes; when he returned to India, he changed back to traditional Indian clothes, but he was still covered with a hat; when he was brought to rural India by an old man to solve the poverty problem, he only wore a piece of cloth and his head was bare. The British call it half naked.

Impressive scenes:
1. Being thrown out of the car abruptly, even though he was so calm and justified.
2. Stand up and walk in front of the gangsters on the streets of South Africa
3. The conflict when the wife does not want to clean the toilet, "We are just people".
4. Speech after traveling in India, "Don't take the opportunity to replace Britain in the name of freedom, we can't represent India if we don't stand in line with millions of husbands who work under the hot sun"
5. Gandhi went to a certain part of India , to face the local poverty, and countless people picked him up at the train station. The police will arrest him immediately. He asked: On what charges.
6. Said to a white friend in prison: The help you can do is to take the position in Fuji. We must know we can make it all by Indians.
7. Two guys who came back from Cambridge need help, Gandhi will do them Said: I want you to record everything that happened here, record it objectively and calmly, and then live with the peasants, which may be dangerous.”
8. Encourage the people of India to wear hand-spun cloth, “The British cloth is beautiful, if It creates hunger and unhappiness, what's the point? "
9. The independence of the people killed in a police parade, it was said: it's an incident .. Gandhi said:. Tell the family of the dead and began a hunger strike.
10. Have the courage to face your own mistakes. "If we want to be independent, we must prove that we have this ability. 1) Hinduism and Islam must be united 2) how the British treat our compatriots, we must not repeat it, we must remove the inequality system such as caste 3) rebel against the British, but not With force, but with firm eyes"
11. Walk all the way, lead the Indians to the sea and start making salt. "salt comes from the Indian Ocean, we have the right to have them"
two foreign journalists shouted "India is free today" into the phone as the British took down a batch of salt batch workers stick by stick because it bears After all suffering and torment, not yielding, not retreating, all the moral superiority of the West has been lost! !
12. After India became independent, Jina demanded that India be divided, and the Muslim-majority north would be called Pakistan. People from two religions are fighting each other. Gandhi, who was on hunger strike, lived in a Muslim home, and someone shouted in the crowd: Go to hell, Gandhi. Later, I saw a few ordinary people who were dazed by the thought of killing. The man said, I will go to hell because I killed a child and banged his head against the wall because those children killed my son.

when you fight for the justice, people will pop up to help.

kill no one, peacefully solved.
fight against their anger, not provoke it.
let themselves see the unjustice. it'll hurt.

they'll have my dead body, not my obeydiance.

we are the children of god, everyone of us!
we are citizens of the Empire.

we must have the courage to take their anger.

peaceful, uncooperative, nonviolent


the real India.
people of India are untouched. Politics to them are bread and salt.

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Extended Reading

Gandhi quotes

  • Vince Walker: You're an ambitious man, Mr. Gandhi.

    Gandhi: I hope not.

  • Gandhi: [in South Africa] You mean you can appoint Mr. Baker as your attorney but you can't walk down the street with him?

    Kahn: Well, I can, but I risk being kicked into the gutter by someone less holy than Mr. Baker.