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🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 133 minutes
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This week on The Cine-Files, John & Steve conclude their exploration of Richard Attenborough's, Academy Award winning epic, Gandhi. This is a remarkable film but for John and Steve it is much more than that. It is a challenging exploration into what it is to be a good human.
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0:00.0 | I'm simply going to prove to Hindus here in Muslims there that the only devils in the world are those running round in our own hearts. |
0:12.0 | And that is where all our battles ought to be fought. |
0:15.0 | Hello and welcome once again to the Cinefiles where we are continually in our exploration of Richard Appenbrose. |
0:29.0 | Gandhi, my name is Steve Morris, I'm the filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. |
0:33.0 | Hello everyone, my name is John Rochem, a writer, producer and host here in San Diego, California. |
0:38.0 | What have the Cinefiles and very excited to be walking back into one of my favorite films ever, Steve. |
0:44.0 | And now we're going to deal with the ramifications of what happened there. |
0:47.0 | It really is a brutal indeed and I'm glad we had a bit of an intermission to sort of reckon with it before returning once again to these spectacularly beautiful and opulent evidence of the buildings of the British Raj in India. |
1:03.0 | Forgive me gentlemen, but you must understand that his majesty's government and the British people repudiate both the massacre and the philosophy that prompted it. |
1:16.0 | We see we're at a meeting and Nehru and Jinnah and Gandhi are all there sitting at a big table and Gandhi very intensely says, |
1:24.0 | excuse me your excellency, it is our view that matters have gone beyond legislation. |
1:30.0 | We think it is time you'll recognize that you are masters in someone else's home. |
1:35.0 | Strong statement putting it right on the table, Steve straight up saying you know any saying it is respectfully and as professionally as possible. |
1:45.0 | And he's saying it's just time, you know, and the British are still being like, well, we'll give you this and we'll give you that. |
1:52.0 | Is that enough? And he's like, no, you don't get it. Get the fuck out. You don't get it. |
1:58.0 | And contrast this guy with the young guy we met in South Africa. |
2:02.0 | I mean, he is so self-contained and confident and just speaking the truth. |
2:08.0 | Despite the best intentions of the best of you, you must in the nature of things. You really hate us to control us. |
2:15.0 | General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle. It is time you left. |
2:21.0 | Yeah, and here's the thing. This is a fascinating philosophy or approach mentally, right? And for anybody who's listening. |
2:29.0 | These people have vilified what Dyer did. They're choosing or they're endeavoring to separate themselves from Dyer's actions. |
2:38.0 | When in fact, their mentality, their approach, their point of view, Dyer is the natural next step. It's an extension. |
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