Review of Gandhi (1982) by Debra R — 20 Sep 2008
This was an incredible movie I learned a lot about the Hindu faith. Gandhi began his life as a lawyer. Travelling on a South African train was kicked off because he wouldn?t give up his first class sit and to coach back then people of color couldn?t ride first class at all.
Gandhi then realized that the laws were unfair for all Indian people and decides to start a non-violent protest movement for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After getting arrest al lot and all the attention he was drawing from the media the government couldn?t figure out how one person could make a major impact on the world as he did.
After such a huge different he made in South Africa Gandhi was invited back to India where he was consider a hero to all his people. But he realized that he didn?t really know his own motherland so he decided to take a train ride to get to know her.
After Gandhi was sent for from the people of India who were starving and dying he knew it was time to make a change. Gandhi urged ask his brothers and sisters to take up a non-violent fight for their independence from the British Empire.
Gandhi plans didn?t go as he thought they would and the British Empire used violence against the protesters and Gandhi with a lot of his followers were put in jail. Finally Gandhi and some of his followers sat down with the British officials and plainly told them to pack up and leave that Indians should and would run India.
The British didn?t want to leave so more fighting began. Then the fighting subsided and the British Empire divided the country into two nations in hope they would destroy each other. The northeast area of India and the eastern part of India that used to be mainly Muslims will become a new country called Pakistan.
Gandhi didn?t like the idea but was willing to let ?Muhammad Ali Jinnah? to become the first prime minister of India. Gandhi would spend his last days trying to bring peace between the two nations. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated January 30, 1948 after an evening of prayer the now much older Gandhi was approached by a larger number of greeter and admires.
Someone in the crowd shot him at point blank into the chest and it was the end of the little brown man we knew as Gandhi who helped saved a nation.
This review of Gandhi (1982) was written by Debra R on 20 Sep 2008.
Gandhi has generally received very positive reviews.
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