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...writing in reference to Errol Louis' "expose" on Gandhi. I cannot help admiring Mr. Louis good intentions in spreading the truth about Gandhi but some of the points he makes need to be commented upon. No one denies that the movie glosses over Gandhi's life, least of all the Indians, but his implication that the movie is simply a piece of political propaganda by the Indian Government is ludicrous as is the notion of Richard Attenborough being an Indian "agent" hired to defame Jinnah. The partial funding of the film by the government was a profitable financial investment...
Louis' criticisms about Gandhi's views on non-violence serve to reinforce one's faith in Gandhi. To remain true to the principles of non-violence even in the face of possible annihilation requires real courage. Hitler's attack on Europe provided a testing ground for these principles and Gandhi stood by them. Far from being despicable, this attitude is admirable if only for its total honesty. As for Louis' penetrating insights into Gandhi's experiments with abstinence, anyone who has the least bit of interest in Gandhi's life will not be surprised by them. They are common knowledge...
...other parts of India, a decision that would affect almost 1 million people. But the students were adamant that those who had arrived between 1961 and 1971 be either denied the right to vote or forced to leave, an enormous exercise that could involve 3 million people. Prime Minister Gandhi was equally adamant that all immigrants who arrived before 1971 and had proof of their Indian citizenship had every legal right to live, work and vote in Assam. As she told Parliament, "I asked the students, 'Where are we going to send these people? Where in India? To what...
...Kingsley (Gandhi) plays Robert, Patricia Hodge is Emma, and Jeremy Irons is their friend, and they are brisk, expert and rather too much of an ensemble. There is not enough contrast of tone between them. The fault may be not of their making, since they are being asked to play theatrical conventions instead of people. David Jones' direction reinforces the problem: elegantly geometrical in its calculation of cuts and angles, it is uninterested in the higher calculus of the emotions. This all serves the text but not the irresistible demands of the movie medium for emotional intensity. Film finally...
...professor of English literature in China and Alabama, Payne produced as many as six or seven books a year on subjects ranging from early Christian history to Greta Garbo's films. His best-known works, biographies of such men as Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and Gandhi, were highly readable but broke little new interpretive or historical ground...