Film Review on Midnight's children and the reluctant 

fundamentalists

 

“Prince and governments are by far more dangerous than other elements within a society”

                                                                                            ------------- By Niccole Machiavelli………….
 In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times

                                                                 By…. Winston Churchill

                  Threw writing the above quotations my intention is not to indicate about politics or about harm or benefit of politics but I am going to explain about postcolonealism or postcolonial theory. The post colonialism questions and reinvents the modes of culture perception the ways of viewing and of being viewed.

What is postcolonealism?

                      It is a critical with examples drawn from the humanities, history and political science etc. Postcolonealism is an academic discipline featuring the methods of intellectual discourse that analyze, explains and response to the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism, to human consequences of controlling a country and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native people and their land.  It also related with the power of hegemony and the mindset of the people. Such a things we were find into the two movies which we have watched:

1) Midnight’s children and
2) The reluctant fundamentalist.
   
  I am going to give film review of both of the movies by applying the postcolonealism. In both of the films we were find politics, expression of power duality and love for own nation, Castism, Indian myths and freedom struggles were found threw these films.
 

1) Midnight’s children by Deepa Mehta   Written by Salman Rusdi
The director of this film was Deepa Mehta and was written by Salman Russdi in 1981. This film based on two the birth of two children during India has achieved its independence.  This film shows the journey of two individuals and their struggles into their live, we can also find tragedy, and romance and comedy also threw this film. It becomes controversial film because the postcoloniealism between two nations we can found threw this film. The two children were born at Bombay hospital one is Saleem child of beggar women whereas the other is Shiva who gets all the prosperity and wealth in his life. Here we can see that how the narrator draws our attention towards the bloody war between Pakistan and India it shows that two nations were still not got independence with each other and it also indicates us that if any Indian wants to live into the Pakistan so he has to change his identity as Hindu and become a Muslim or a Muslim has to became Hindu to live into the India otherwise the people will throw out from his life also. We can also see into the movie that a nurse does crime and she changes infant by changing their religion which was a big crime s boy who lives with the does here we find a corruption and misuse of power and politics. Also we can observe that how a woman can does such a unexpected crime. We can find the differences between poor and rich people and  also how they were treated into the society because rich has all the prosperities but poor people have to struggle allot.   We can see the child who lives with the poor parents his nature was found different than the Saleem has good nature whereas Shiva has villain type of nature and it indicates the social problems that rich people always things that the poor were bad people and richer were type of filtered people and that difference will found into this movie. In Black skin whit mask novel also found that blacks were indicates as bad people and whites were good and such things we were found throw the appearance of rich and poor people. In this movie we can also see that Mr. Sinai always tries to see his child as rich and progressive and so he always used to scold him and he says that   “He is not my blood” and so we can find the cruelty of a father.  After  the marriage Saleem’s mother has also extra affairs were shown into this film which is also indicates that the women were not so much pious than the men  so such things were shows and rejects the idea of postcolonealism is that and  difference between  male and female relationships as equal.  So the film is shows three   generations threw this movie.  So this film was fibulas for understanding the post colonialism by applying the theory and its effects. We can also found symbolism also that when the midnight’s children were born the atmosphere and weather was found as full of thunders and also indicates that something bad will going to happen so it also brakes the myths and morality of the Indian and other religions mindset. 

2) The second movie is about the Reluctant Fundamentalism  written by Mohsin Hamid  and directed by Mira Nair Dir was fabulous movie and we can watch that movie with full of enjoyments because  it is a film which shows  the colonialism between two nations as we know that India and Pakistan. The film was described by the protagonist of this film Changese Khan so the narrator was first person singular who narrates the story into his past life by using the flashback technique. The story is about the person who is went to America to be a successful person and he also achieves allot into his life very fast he gets name, fame and money and also a good girlfriend. It shows that how the every people want to be a rich and wants all the facilities into their life which was not an easy task of life. 

                    We can see that many terrorist attacks were happening into the world so the period of 9/11 was described into this film which shows the mindset of the people that “ If any attacks  were happens into any of the place so the people first indicate the Muslim community that he has attacked because all the attacks were happened by Muslims so it was become the mindset of the all people and in this film such thing we were  found. Also it leads us towards the psychological aspect also that during the attack of world tread center every people were became lifeless because that was a big terrorist attack which has broken and shook whole America or we can say American economy. So the people of America and American police started to see Changes as terrorist because of his cast and his physical look.  It was the difference of the native people and the outsiders’ people shows the effect of the “Third world” country where  every humans  who were rising up but some circumstances were suppresses to the people of the other countries that how the employment systems were related with the  political game. We can also find That Changes’s girlfriend also not give support to him because she was also from American citizen and it also shows colonial power that every nation wants his own identity and for it they can do anything.    So the movie is into the interior monologue and so the protagonist tells the story of his own life to Boby the reporter that how and why he has leave the nation and his packaged job also which is shows the psychological torture and stress of the young man who have to left his beneficial life because of the colonial mid set of the people.

                 So at last I wants to say that the movie gives message to remove the colonialism between different nation and “to live and let the live”   it also gives message of “ Give respect and take respect” that if anyone can torture any nation or people so that nation also not bear  so we have to first remove the Castism and give equality to all the nation to live the life peaceful.  So this movie is related with the reality of the colonial nations and their capitalism and effect of “ Third world “ country people that how to live life by becoming  equal but truth is always bitter and it gives
 Harm of Ego and Super Ego which leads us towards the difficulties of two different countries so such nice movie” The reluctant Fundamentalism” was which is the great example of post colonialism. 

 Because “Truth and failure was always bitter”.