【影片簡介】尋找甘地 In Search of Gandhi

 

 

 

印度 India | 2007 | 52 min | Lalit Vachani

 

「為什麼要民主」系列紀錄片

‘Why Democracy?’ Documentary Series

 

是Lalit Vachani(拉利特•瓦切尼)執導的紀錄片，以「公路電影」形式拍攝，重新檢驗印度聖雄甘地領導的不合作運動的策略，並揭露印度獨立建國之後依舊存在於印度社會之中的社會階級不平等、偏執、暴力等問題。拍攝時的主要行進路線是聖雄甘地「食鹽長征」的路線。

 

印度獨立以來，甘地的非暴力反抗運動一直是印度近代史上重要的核心，今天印度的民主呈現什麼面貌？本片導演重新踏上1930年甘地為抗議英國人徵鹽稅開始的「食鹽長征」，觀察甘地非暴力反抗的理念如何影響21世紀的印度。本片以公路電影形式拍攝，導演跟隨甘地腳步，沿途遇到今日生活在印度的人們，他們的處境透露社會階級不平等、偏執、和暴力問題，仍困擾著這片土地。

 

In the early decades of the twentieth century Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy of non-violent revolution or Satyagraha inspired a mass movement of millions of Indians to rise up against the British colonial state and successfully agitate for the establishment of a democratic and free India.

 

Now in the 2000s, what kind of a democracy does India have today? What does it actually mean to live in the world’s largest democracy?

 

In road-movie style the film crew travels down the famous trail of Gandhi’s salt march, the remarkable mass campaign that galvanized ordinary Indians to join the non-violent struggle for democracy and freedom almost a century ago. Stopping at the same villages and cities, where Gandhi and his followers had raised their call for independence, the film documents the stories of ordinary citizens in India today. Although inspired by a historical event In Search of Gandhi is not a journey back in time. Instead it is a search for the present and future of democracy in India.

 

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