Review of Gandhi (1982) by Piragio T — 21 Sep 2013

Gandhi is a biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Gandhi. The movie starts off with Gandhi's assassination in 1948 and his funeral. In the movie they show no parts of Gandhi's early life, instead they show a flashback of Gandhi being thrown off a train in Africa, because he was sitting in first class on a train even though he had a ticket.

Gandhi understanding the laws are biased against Indians decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for all Indians in South-Africa. Later on in the story it is then suggested to Gandhi that he should be the one to lead India to independence from the British, because now he is seen as a national hero for his fight in South-Africa.

After a long fight the movie leads back to Gandhi's assassination and him being cremated. This movie relates to world religions, because it shows all of the different beliefs in life. It also relates to world religions because, it shows how one man fought for what he believes In so not only his people but others could live and believe in what they wanted to freely without prejudice.

The movie was very inspirational as well; because of the long hard fight that Gandhi put to fight for what was right. The depiction of his life was very well written and played out to the point where I thought it was an autobiographical movie at one point.

It relayed so much information about Gandhi that I had never known before. I see how Gandhi and the Hinduism beliefs correlate so much as well, both believe in peace and unity and also are non-violent in every way they also both respect one another and their beliefs and don't point prejudice towards anyone for what they believe in or do.