Midnight's children is an incredibly complex book. It's part Forest Gump, part sci-fi fantasy, and encompasses pretty much 50 of the years of history leading up to and after the partition of India (which is where the Forest Gump analogy comes in - our main character, or members of his family, is involved in every aspect of that history). The sci-fi fantasy bit is the strangest part of it all - a special psychic connection between all the children born at the moment of partition - the Midnight's Children of the title. (They also all have an array of diverse super powers.) How do you make a movie out of something like that? Not easily. Don't think you could even make a mini series that captured the full breadth of a book like that. So you have to simplify so much that, really, all that's left of the book is the title. If you haven't read the book, the movie is quite okay. If you have, forget the book and just watch what's on the screen.
Review of Midnight's Children
