Midnight's Children

Epic in scope and tone
"Midnight's Children" (2012 release; 148 min.) is a movie based in Salman Rushdie's book of the same name. Rushdie returns as the writer of the movie script. As the movie opens, we find ourselves in rural India, 1917, where we get to meet the Sinai family. The first half hour of the movie is simply an introduction to the beauty of India, its historical background (with the divide between Muslims and Hinuds, while being ruled by the British), and to the grandparents and parents of the movie's eventual central character, a boy named Saleem Sinai. Saleem is born at the stroke of midnight on August 14, 1947, the moment that India gains its independence. For reasons too long to explain here, the nurse at the hospital, inspired by her 'revolutionary' husband who claims that "the rich shall be poor and the poor shall be rich", switches two babies born at the same time, one from a rich family, and one from a poor street musician couple. As Saleem gets older, he begins to hear voices in his...

GOOD MOVIE
GOOD MOVIE. WILL SEE IT WHEN I GET BACK HOME SINCE I AM DEPLOYED. WILL LET YOU THEN WHEN I SEE IT.



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