I haven't thought Ghandi would be so amazing°

Rating: 8/10 (7 January 2019)

I recently watched the ''Gandhi'' movie in English class.
A little men that gets beaten up several times, not fighting physically back, is becoming one of the most influential -if not- the most influential person in Indian history: Mahatma Gandhi.
The movie describes the life of the so-called Mahatma; from his rise and fall.
The movie immediately opens with Gandhi's death, followed by a scene where thousands if not millions of Indians cry over him and celebrate his funeral. This creates a really curious impact in the viewers mind, leading to ask yourself, who this old man was, what did he do that he is so much loved and why he got killed?
After that, the movie starts to tell the beginning of Gandhi and jumps back in time in 1893, South Africa. Here Gandhi, a young lawyer, faced racism for the first time, gets beaten up by several policeman, is arrested, but in the end fights back in a non-violent way by using his knowledge as a lawyer and eventually gets free and saves the rights of the Indian people in South Africa.
This event spreads through the whole British Empire leading to Gandhi's fame, especially in India.
By the time Gandhi arrived in India, he gets greeted by thousands of people and is asked to help the country to free itself from the Empire. At first he refuses, but after an incident where the British soldiers got violent against Indian people, he realizes that they treat them like second class citizens and starts to fight back.
Of course in a non-violent way.
Personally, I didn't thought, the movie would be that brutal, and exciting.
The Image of Gandhi, as a non-violent, peacefully person, let me think that the movie would be really boring; but this is not the case!
I was actually shocked by the brutality Gandhi and the Indian people experienced, which created a lot of tension in the movie.
The tension was sometimes so high, that I blurred everything out and felt to be ''inside'' of the Movie.
But of course the movie has some weak bones:
Sometimes I felt a bit bored, especially in the several prison scenes.
Another thing I have to criticize is the shaky camera movement. It made the movie sometimes uncomfortable to watch.
This could have been improved, especially when you compare it to some silent movies which came decades before.
To put it in a nutshell, I think the ''Gandhi'' movie represents Gandhi as a person.
It got interesting dialog such as an interesting and exciting story, but because of the flaws I pointed out, I only give the movie a 8/10 stars rating.