Gandhi - Movie Review

The movie "Gandhi" was just as interesting as it was informational. Mohandas Gandhi, more widely known as Mahatma Gandhi was the prominent leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The movement as well as the movie started off with Gandhi protesting the passes that the British were forcing all Indians to carry. Gandhi felt that if everyone did not have to carry these passes there was no reason that the Indians should. He decided to burn his along with anyone else's who was sick of the unfair treatment by the British. Upon doing this he receives his first beating. Instead of changing this law for the better, the government decides to enforce a rule that all Indians must be finger printed. Naturally, Gandhi as well as many others refuse to comply and they are imprisoned. The act is eventually appealed and everyone is let out of prison.

Gandhi feels that he must leave South Africa and go back to his roots in India were he can live amongst his people. He lives a humble life continually fighting for the depressed Indians. As he is doing this he is arrested again for disturbing the peace, but is released on no charges and no bail. The British feel threatened and tell the Indian people that they are not allowed to hold meetings. As Gandhi is in jail a meeting is held and the British unleash fire on the crowd which is filled with women and children. 1516 people die in this brutal attack on innocent people. The British then impose martial law and the Indians fight back. After a few British soldiers are killed Gandhi announces that the campaign must end immediately. He uses fasting as a method to stop all Indian demonstrations. This works so well that people were even giving the British guards garlands as a sign of peace. The revolution is stopped and Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition.

After serving his time in prison, Gandhi chooses to walk to the Indian Ocean in order to collect salt which rightfully belongs to the people of India. He feels that like air and water, salt is the essence of life. The British again attempt to provoke violence from the Indians but they still refuse to give in. Eventually Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated in 1948 in New Delhi, India.

Through the great leadership of Gandhi, the people of India were able to improve their lives and stop some of the discrimination that was occurring. People think that Gandhi's ideology was to be passive and non-violent,