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Lion
(2016),
Director: Garth Davis, rated PG-13
The true story
of a life lost and found
  Starring:
Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Sunny Pawar, Abhishek
Bharate, Priyanka Bose, Divian Ladwa, Tannishtha Chatterjee,
Riddhi Sen
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"Do you have any idea
what it's like knowing my real brother and mother spent every
day of their lives looking for me? Huh? How every day my real
brother screams my name? Can you imagine the pain they must be
in not knowing where I am?" -
Saroo Brierley
Why watch this? It's
an incredible story about life, and chance, and enduring love.
Plot Summary:
A five-year-old Indian boy named Saroo gets separated from his
brother at a train station and falls asleep on a carriage,
waking up hundreds of miles away in Kolkata where he faces
harrowing challenges before being adopted by a loving Australian
couple. After growing up in Tasmania, a haunted adult Saroo
decides to use his fragmented memories and Google Earth to
search for his original family and lost village.
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Dad's Preview:
America has slums and homeless islands within its cities.
India's poverty levels puts that to shame. This film
follows a lost 5-year-old boy, taken hundreds of miles
from his home by shear accident. His survival is only
possible by the calluses of his street-urchin existence.
Yet, survive he does, and this true story is simply
incredible. This Western-made film excels in accurately
capturing historical aspects of India in its first half,
then give us a heart-warming journey in its last. Dev
Patel continues to show that he is worthy of his leading
man title. It is a true learning opportunity when a film
presents itself in order to empathetically educate about
other microcosms within our world; how fellow humans
live, love, die and, in the end, resemble us. We are not
that different from one another.
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