Movie review "Midnight Children"
This blog is a part of my classroom activity of postcolonial studies Film screening : "Midnight Children".
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"Midnight children" this movie based on the famous novel writer and Booker prize winner Salman Rushdie and this movie is directed by Deepa mehta and screen by Salman Rushdie.this film based on India before independent and after independent colonial and postcolonial aspect.Its about the political power and superiority. This film story about India, is told though a smaller one, about a family, and especially one boy Saleem Sinai. Saleem Sinai is a hero and roll of his played by British actor Satya Bhabha. This movie start with Indian city also end with same. Saleem life run out that the political ,social ,linguistic and cultural strife faced the newly independent India.And there is meta narration of Muslim its challenge by marginalization.
We see in this movie things like telepathic,and Saleem's telepathy is a way for us to imagine the difficulty of containing multitudes in one body and not just Saleem body but also politic of nation of India. that in the movie we see magic realism that Saleem was eventually find a way to hear their "Like calling out to like" It call like a magic and there is underneath the crasy clamor of all the other voices is a sign of hope in a novel that keeps telling us how saleem and India is literary spilitting apart and dying. When the midnight children's join saleem for chatty, contentious meeting , the camera's focus goes soft , which seems fitting , as the children are mostly indistinct here practically an afterthought , and without much metaphorical power.And in any case , they take a back seat to saleem and his family's story . There are infants switched at birth one rich, one poor, revelations about parenthood , amnesia, war, riots, sudden shifts in fortune and, most satisfyingly, a kind of mother-son reunion between Saleem and his ayah that would do a Bombay talkie proud.
Historical time in India as well as Bangladesh history , Indian history like the independence movement, two civil war with Pakistan arising of the Bangladesh as a new nation,emergency during Indira Gandhi was prime minister of India. In a sense we see in this film this all are recorded of history and Indian culture too.
Little magic is also reflected with Paravti's - Abracadabra we see in this film that character of Parvati present magic realism.Through her magic and through her magic skill she changes the situation and save saleem life.
This blog is a part of my classroom activity of postcolonial studies Film screening : "Midnight Children".
Here is the blob link given this task.
We see in this movie things like telepathic,and Saleem's telepathy is a way for us to imagine the difficulty of containing multitudes in one body and not just Saleem body but also politic of nation of India. that in the movie we see magic realism that Saleem was eventually find a way to hear their "Like calling out to like" It call like a magic and there is underneath the crasy clamor of all the other voices is a sign of hope in a novel that keeps telling us how saleem and India is literary spilitting apart and dying. When the midnight children's join saleem for chatty, contentious meeting , the camera's focus goes soft , which seems fitting , as the children are mostly indistinct here practically an afterthought , and without much metaphorical power.And in any case , they take a back seat to saleem and his family's story . There are infants switched at birth one rich, one poor, revelations about parenthood , amnesia, war, riots, sudden shifts in fortune and, most satisfyingly, a kind of mother-son reunion between Saleem and his ayah that would do a Bombay talkie proud.
Historical time in India as well as Bangladesh history , Indian history like the independence movement, two civil war with Pakistan arising of the Bangladesh as a new nation,emergency during Indira Gandhi was prime minister of India. In a sense we see in this film this all are recorded of history and Indian culture too.
Little magic is also reflected with Paravti's - Abracadabra we see in this film that character of Parvati present magic realism.Through her magic and through her magic skill she changes the situation and save saleem life.
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