Gandhi (1982)
I know I’m a bit late, but anyway I finally saw this 3 hour film. It does seem rather well done. Ben Kingsley plays wonderfully as Mohatma Gandhi. But really the real treasure of the movie is the idea of peaceful, but not passive, protest of injustice and violence. I’m a bit ashamed I didn’t know these bits of history: India and Pakistan’s genesis from a single area controlled by the British, and Gandhi’s hunger strike which apparently averted both a revolutionary war and a civil war. I wish for Gandhi’s help in Iraq today.
