What I really liked about the film was the fact that despite it being set in South Africa, it wasn't used as a platform for tedious political soapboxing, like in other RSA based films like Cry Freedom or Ghandi. Yet it didn't gloss over the awful conditions the blacks had to endure to dig the gold to finance the luxury of the white men. The gold mine is not shown as a battleground between the blacks and the whites, but between greed and basic human decency.
shareGandhi is set in India. Stop stereotyping.
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This is the story of a man who could not...make up...his mind.
Before attacking a post, get your facts straight - a substantial part of Gandhi is set in South Africa as MK Gandhi spent his formative years as a barrister in that country.
shareWhat? About 15 minutes of a three hour film is spent in South Africa!
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"I want the bastards dead." - Laurence Olivier as Richard III, 1955
But it was otherwise "used as a platform for tedious political soapboxing", which is the point the original poster was making.
shareIn addition to highlighting the colonial condition in India, Gandhi also depicts conditions for 'coloureds' in South Africa. That, IMO, is substantial - and has nothing to do with the time on the clock.
"Someone has been tampering with Hank's memories."
hahaha way to own maddocks, but your correct in your interpretation of what the film seems to be about.
shareI saw the movie on television in late 1975. It made me fall in love with South Africa. A friend of mine and I were discussing leaving for South Africa then. I should have done it and started my life over. I'm still in love with the film after 41 years. Our dining room is decorated with African things. There is a large movie poster of Gold in thevdining room.
shareI know how you feel. I lived in Southern Africa for many years and still miss it with a heavy heart today.
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