objective

Christian 2022-03-19 09:01:03

As the opening subtitles of the movie say: a person's life cannot be told with a single story, only the essence of which can be faithfully recorded to try to understand a person's spiritual world. And this film does retell Gandhi's life in the shortest possible time. From this point of view, the film was very successful.
From my point of view, this movie is not my type (I like "The Social Network"), but it gives me the shortest amount of time to understand what I should know.
So, even though it's not my genre, I still think it's a great film. It's the same attitude I have with "The King's Speech," and their scene compositions are both great.
PS: This is the second film I've seen with an intermission, the first being Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai".

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Extended Reading

Gandhi quotes

  • Gandhi: I want to welcome you all. Every one of you. We have no secrets. Let us begin by being clear... about General Smuts' new law. All Indians must now be fingerprinted... like criminals. Men and women. No marriage other than a Christian marriage is considered valid. Under this act our wives and mothers are whores. And every man here is a bastard.

    Kahn: He has become quite good at this.

    Gandhi: And a policeman passing an Indian dwelling, I will not call them homes, may enter and demand the card of any Indian woman whose dwelling it is.

  • Nehru: Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying... What do you want?

    Gandhi: That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.