MOVIE REVIEW

TITLE: Gandhi

Nacionality: R.U, EE.UU

Director: Richard Attenborough

Interpreters: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)

Central theme of the film: The Independence of India through the intervetion of Gandhi

Epoch: End of century XIX

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox,  John Grelgod, Trevor Howard, Jhon Mills, Martin Sheen, Rohini Hattangady.

The movie narrates how peaceful struggle for the liberation of India is given. The main proponent was Mahatma Gandhi who repeatedly suffered from racial, cultural, social and religious discrimination. Gandhi devoted his complete life to the struggle for India Independence. He was born on October 2nd, 1869, in Porbandar, India. He was a lawyer, thinker, and political Indian. When he was 13 years old he married a woman named Kasturbá who accompanied him throughout his life. Like Gandhi, she was arrested several times. After a long struggle, she died in prision from thrombosis, which represented a great sadness for Gandhi.

The entire movement was conducted under the premise of non-violence, peaceful macher and respect for equality, since in India and South Africa black men were treated as slaves, their rights were raped and poverty abounded, while the Bristish Empire enjoyed all the privileges of the economy. They were the owners of the land, and the Indian production, they had better housing and clothing and they dominated Indian population.  Gandhi begins with the construction of a commune where everyone works equally with the same benefits, even they started making their own clothes in order to impar the textile industry in England.

  

During his life Gandhi makes two hunger strikes in order for his village to make them aware because he said he couldn´t see how his people destroyed and killed each other; in the same way, Gandhi was the inspiration behind the salt march, which consisted of a protest against taxes in their country, he thought that there should be a balance between work and capital.

After nearly 20 years of struggle for equal rights and good living conditions for Indian, Gandhi has two options:

to separate India into two independent states or the civil war, for which Gandhi decided to separate India into two states (Pakistan and India), but on the border of two states happened violent clashes and for that reason Gandhi begins his second hunger strike, but his village react and stop violence, therefore Gandhi stop making his hunger strike and Hindu and Muslims live in community, all of this in order to follow Gandhian ideology.

One of his main goals was to help poor farmers and laborers, protest against oppressive taxation and discrimination. During his life Gandhi faced six assassination attempts, and he died in the latest attack on January 30th, 1948 by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic, fired three bullets into Gandhi and this ended the life of a man who was considered a saint, a man who embodies the ideals of truth, peace and non-violence.

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Lina Marcela Gonzalez