Midnight Special was good. It's about a boy who has special powers, and the government is after him. The special effects are minimal. All of Jeff Nichols movies are worth watching.
To get the most out of the symbolism of the movie, Midnight Special is a black folk song (everyone knows Creedence Clearwater Revival's version).."John and Alan Lomax, in their book, Best Loved American Folk Songs, told a credible story identifying the Midnight Special as a train from Houston shining its light into a cell in the Sugar Land Prison. They also describe Ledbetter's version as "the Negro jailbird's ballad to match Hard Times Poor Boy. Like so many American folk songs, its hero is not a man but a train." The light of the train is seen as the light of salvation, the train which could take them away from the prison walls."
To get the most out of the symbolism of the movie, Midnight Special is a black folk song (everyone knows Creedence Clearwater Revival's version).."John and Alan Lomax, in their book, Best Loved American Folk Songs, told a credible story identifying the Midnight Special as a train from Houston shining its light into a cell in the Sugar Land Prison. They also describe Ledbetter's version as "the Negro jailbird's ballad to match Hard Times Poor Boy. Like so many American folk songs, its hero is not a man but a train." The light of the train is seen as the light of salvation, the train which could take them away from the prison walls."
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