MOVIES:
LION 🦁 (2016)
“Lion” has one of those plot lines that feels like a Hollywood screenplay — except it actually happened.
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of Kilometers 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.
Starring Dev Patel, Mila Rooney, Nicole Kidman
“Lion” is a complex movie, with its profound themes of home and identity, and its tonally disparate halves. A smartly understated approach to Brierley’s story holds it all together.
If you have ever been a child, raised a child, lost a child or met a child — or any of the above with respect to a mother — this movie will wreck you.Full review
Its themes are universal. Everyone has a home, and everyone feels connected to it, no matter how far they travel.
Garth Davis uses close-ups sparingly and hits no false notes; cinematographer Greig Fraser creates a child’s perspective by setting the camera at the hero’s eye level and conveys the grandeur of India through sweeping panoramic and overhead shots.
