Gandhi is Good in a world where we Need to 'Give them Something to Fight About'

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2012)

Gandhi was a great movie. It was meant to be during his time that there would be someone like him. That's how it was meant to be. It just goes to show the universal theme, everyone in India rises together and focuses on getting the British out. Once the British are out, then their focus goes to how much they hate each other, the Muslims hating the HIndu's, the Hindu's hating the Muslims as then a Civil War starts to break out. Then let's say those problems get eradicated, then they would focus on which water is better to drink, Dasani or Aquafina and they would have a war over that.
That's why those Miller Lite commercials were always so good, where one group of people would say 'Tastes Great' and the other group of people would disagree and say 'Less Filling' and both groups would start an argument chanting their belief, their belief in beer!! . It was, ironically, a very thought provoking metaphor saying 'We all like the freaking beer, but there will always be something to argue and fight about because we're human beings and that's what we do, we'll argue about which species of Cockroach is the prettiest and probably get in a war over that'.
That's exactly what it was about in Gandhi, The Wind that Shakes the Barley and in everyday life pretty much. You can't beat everyday life, but Gandhi tried and in the end he did a lot of good, and he definitely went by what he knew in his heart, not what he saw. That was a lot of what he was saying and conveying too, 'Go by what you know in your heart because you can at least control that, if you can't control the rest of it.' Really great movie. Ben Kingsley gave one of the top 10 greatest performances of all time in Gandhi in my opinion. If you've never seen much of Kingsley's work, watch Gandhi first and then watch him in Sexy Beast.