![]() Eventually he finds himself in a children’s home and is adopted by John (David Wenham) and Sue (Nicole Kidman) Brierley in Tasmania, Australia.Īt this point of the story, young Saroo grows up to become a young 20’s version of himself, played by Dev Patel. Young Saroo becomes one of the train children of Kolkata, running around the station trying to live off of the trash, and other creative ways they forge in order to survive. He doesn’t know his mother’s name since he calls her “mom”, and they can’t find the name of the town he gives them. Not only is Saroo in a strange land where he no longer knows the lay of the land, but they speak Bengali, and not his native Hindi dialect. ![]() Saroo ends up, unbeknownst to him, 1500km away from home in the Howrah rail station in Kolkata, India. He awakes to find he is locked in with the train traveling for many days.īased on a true story, and adapted from Saroo Brierley’s book, “ A Long Way Home“, Lion grabs the audience by the throat and doesn’t let go until the credits have run. Saroo awakes and looks for Gaduu and thinking he is on a rail car, climbs onboard an empty car to see, before falling asleep. Saroo begs to go with him and when they arrive at night, Saroo collapses on a bench to sleep while Gaduu goes off to ask about a job. One day, Gaduu sets off to leave for a town 70km away where he would sweep rail cars or do other labor. Young Saroo (Sunny Pawar) and his older brother Gaduu (Abhishek Bharate) spend much of their time running around their small town in the Ganesh Tilai neighborhood of Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh in Indian, trying to find ways to bring home money for their mother who lives in poverty and works as a construction worker. That film is Lion.īased on a true story, and adapted from Saroo Brierley’s book, “ A Long Way Home“, Lion grabs the audience by the throat and doesn’t let go until the credits have run. One of the best films of this year is a small, little film with a big heart, and it fires on all cylinders transcending the screen you see it on. Sounds, soundtrack, and score combined with the director’s eye for what to show, and what not to show, how much light/how little light, and more must all be working together to make this transcendence happen, but ultimately it must always come down to story. ![]() The cinematography, whether it be of close shot urban terrain, or more wide-angled looks at vast topography, seeks to place us squarely in a setting where we will identify with the protagonist of our tale and understand their journey. Some films transcend the screen and draw the audience in to its story allowing one to fully feel the effects of the narrative as it plays out before us. ![]()
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