Great movie that ignored all negative aspects of his life

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-gandhi-nobody-knows/


It should be against the law to use 'LOL'; unless you really did LOL!

Great movie indeed, but yeah, that article in the link posted above definitely attempts to put a great deal of things in perspective as far as Gandhi's less flattering qualities, inconsistencies, fanaticism and political motivations. What really got me was the realization that the Jallianwala Bagh massacre produced casualties ranging up to 1500 at the hands of the British general, however, estimated millions were killed in conflicts between Hindus and Muslims as a result of the British backing out of there and the migration. The bit about his open letter to Hitler is very amusing and as far as the film, I particularly liked this passage from the beginning of the article:

" the government of India openly admits to having provided one-third of the financing of 'Gandhi' out of state funds, straight out of the national treasury...The screenplay was checked and rechecked by Indian officials at every stage, often by the Prime Minister herself, with close consultations on plot and even casting... A friend of mine, highly sophisticated in political matters but innocent about film-making, declared that Gandhi should be preceded by the legend: The following film is a paid political advertisement by the government of India."

People hate what's popular and people jump on bandwagons. The rest of us are in the middle. Done.

What is your point here? to tear down someone more special than you? The movie ain't ABOUT his negative qualities. Why WOULD they show it? It would be poor-filmaking, if they did. Movies have messages... a point.... unless you think the point of this movie is that we are all a dichotomy, with different sides to our character, there is no reason to show the unfavorable stuff.

Did sjws exist in 1982?

All Historical Heroes have flaws, and all Demons (even Hitler) have a few good qualities.

Seriously, I don't agree with the popular opinion that GWTW was "whitewashing history".
It is told from the perspective of Margaret Mitchell's grandmother (who was the inspiration for the Scarlett character).
Thus, slaves and their lives and their sufferings weren't much in focus.
Actually, that movie is progressive for having been made in 1939.
They would give real black actors jobs and publicity instead of letting white actors play the black characters in black-face.
Furthermore, they refused to use the N-word or give the KKK a positive portrayal.

And as for this movie, I liked the scene where Gandhi and his wife argued over the "untouchables".
It is probably true that this movie ignored many details, which would make Gandhi look bad to many people.
But that scene gave us a glimpse of the fact, that he can't have been a perfect saint all the time.
From a modern occidental point of view, Gandhi would be right to feel that discrimination was wrong.
But he got into an ugly argument with his wife over it and didn't seem to respect her opinions at all for a moment.
Furthermore, Gandhi is portrayed as having been well-intentioned but naive when he was older.
Like he could never understand that lots of people weren't pacifists like him and wanted to solve their issues through violence.
That was only proven by the fact that he was assassinated.
Some times, it is not enough to just believe and preach that people should change.