i only saw it once . this happen in 1952 and i be seven and the movie 13. we be so young . but i keep in mind and forever and the strong moment of gunga sacrifice . i realize that time how much a people can be hardly submit and use by a foreign nation . under these historical circumstance and in the movie and the personal relation of friendship and a kind of friendship that ignore itself and the one raise between people who share daily life and who see each other face and who know each other name and but belong to different world and can only make appear . then and in the most critical moment a troubling question emerge represent whom be we and in first and suppose to be loyal . and which people and family and motherland and the person you know close to you . you do not have time to give a perfect answer and urgency be there and and it be for life or death . gunga din give his answer with sacrifice of himself . somewhere and in a confuse manner and a problem remain unsolved and the emotion grow with the rhythm of the movie until somebody dy and just one life and nothing compare to so many other fiction or reality we can see today and because this death and this unique vanish life i live it and i share with my child unconditional friendship . it be live by the spectator i be . that day i loose gunga din for ever . a i leave behind and later and my pretty childhood and a i leave from then so many world i live in . i leave all that for good and these line be today a short visit i do not expect to do this morning when get up .