Lion- Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman & Sunny Pawar

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I watched Lion last night, starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. I think it is pretty much impossible to watch this movie without crying. It is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley who was lost as a boy at an Indian railway station then, as an adult living in Australia 25 years later, used Google Earth to find his mother.

Movie synopsis:
Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
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Wow, talk about an emotional movie! The performances from Kidman and Patel as grown up Saroo were great, but I think what stole the show for me was the acting of Sunny Pawar who acts as the 5 year old Saroo. The terror the child must have faced waking up on a deserted train station, and then having fallen asleep on a train, finding himself many miles away from his village and unable to articulate where he was from or his mother's name...all I can say is this little actor took me through every emotion as if I were a lost child myself.

What really hit me was the plight of so many homeless and orphaned kids, especially those staying in the walkway under the train station. The desperation in their eyes, oh my. I wanted to adopt them all right there and then. It reminded me of what the Cs said with regards to Indian children being used for nefarious purposes by 3D & 4D STS. This movie really brings home how lost and vulnerable these children are to multi-dimensional predators.

Well worth watching but do sit down with a box of tissues!







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I loved how 5 year old Saroo's instincts kicked in when a seemingly nice lady took him in and seemed kind, but when her man walked in and sized him up, he knew something was off and fled. I would imagine they were going to sell him for sex, and it made me so angry. I have no words for despicable 'humans' like that.

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That is a pretty good movie. Don't be so sad. You do notice that even though they aren't rich the child is very happy. Even after being adopted he still yearn to come home. First of all this is a movie so things get exaggerated a bit. Look at the mother that is one gorgeous rock carrier. They also have a brick home that is painted with train station so the town is quite prosperous (usually just bamboo or wooden hut villages). You know when you are little you just need to be loved. Every little experience is a joy (eating sweets). Rich city children are actually worse off (spoiled and isolated). I guess just different expectations, in the city you actually feel envy since the gap between poor and rich is so big and everybody is just out for themselves.

I actually experience both world simple rural and rich in the city. Making money is just a routine after certain needs is being met. The happiest moments still being around loving people.
 
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I watched this movie yesterday. I don't know why but it touched me deeply, I cried almost the whole movie.

Maybe it's just me, I don't know, but what I thought is that this movie is like poetry made into a film. The art of it is excellent, IMO. The soundtrack is beautiful and very effective. The scenes are very natural and simple, but yet, they say a lot. Photography is natural as well, but beautiful. And the story is so compelling. It's very sad, yes. But you also laugh and feel deep joy. GREAT movie!
 
Yas said:
I watched this movie yesterday. I don't know why but it touched me deeply, I cried almost the whole movie.

Maybe it's just me, I don't know, but what I thought is that this movie is like poetry made into a film. The art of it is excellent, IMO. The soundtrack is beautiful and very effective. The scenes are very natural and simple, but yet, they say a lot. Photography is natural as well, but beautiful. And the story is so compelling. It's very sad, yes. But you also laugh and feel deep joy. GREAT movie!
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Yas, I was teary through most of the, and as if that wasn't enough, when the credits rolled with actual footage of Saroo meeting his mother in real life, I just lost it. It really is a beautiful film & as you mentioned above, the score and the photography truly is art in motion.
 
Arwenn said:
Yas said:
I watched this movie yesterday. I don't know why but it touched me deeply, I cried almost the whole movie.

Maybe it's just me, I don't know, but what I thought is that this movie is like poetry made into a film. The art of it is excellent, IMO. The soundtrack is beautiful and very effective. The scenes are very natural and simple, but yet, they say a lot. Photography is natural as well, but beautiful. And the story is so compelling. It's very sad, yes. But you also laugh and feel deep joy. GREAT movie!
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Yas, I was teary through most of the, and as if that wasn't enough, when the credits rolled with actual footage of Saroo meeting his mother in real life, I just lost it. It really is a beautiful film & as you mentioned above, the score and the photography truly is art in motion.
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Even I don't like movies with drama genre, I have start to watched this movie yesterday and finishing tonight. It is so deeply sad and remind me of days in my life when I didn't have food and place to live. But even my experience was hard somehow I have my self to blame because I have choose that path, and this child didn't. Maybe this movie is so deep and emotional because is inspired with true story:
The True Story Behind Lion: How Lost Child Saroo Brierley Found His Birth Mother More Than 20 Years Later
 
And maybe the most precious moment in the movie (among the many) is when his mom (Nicole Kidman) said that she didn't adopted him and his brother because she couldn't have kids, but because she and her husband thought that is enough people on Earth. They didn't think that child birth is a particularly good deed, but to adopt children that already had suffer so much and give them chance in life maybe it is.
(This is my translation so please have that in mind. I hope you get the context.)

You can see that exactly movie scene in 2:00 min. of the video:

 
It was a very good, inspiring and touching movie. The soundtrack is just beautiful too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-gEOMi5_o .
 
Saw this one a while ago... it was good, but I thought the documentary/s were better, more real, because it was the real guy, his real mom/s, etc.... his brother's fate is left to just a footnote at the end of the film, which could have been used much more dramatically in the film, but wasn't... film was good, but as I was going through the Wikipedia writeup, the Youtube vids etc... I found them more dramatic, but it is the same story... perhaps the imagination had more room to breath in the other docs?
 
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