The child trafficking angle was really scary. So glad Little Saroo had those instincts to run away. True, I'd forgotten the child trafficking angle. Read More: Here Are the Oscar Nominations We’re Most Excited About in 2017 No but the bit at the start when they came and captured all the kids was sad to watch. Yeah the train station I thought captured the noise/crowds/busy-ness of India. Presumably they lived in a slum as children, but that didn't look like the slums we visited. I think they sanitized the reality of India a bit. I think I've fully dealt with my India PTSD & was happy to revisit it. Did the film bring up any PTSD-like emotions? Yes, completely agree - he just like, walked there.Ĭassie Carothers [1:08 and You were both in India recently. The one thing from the middle I thought was well done was dramatizing the longing that he had to find his family. I wish he could have played Saroo throughout the film. I thought it was incredible! The imagery was beautiful. Read More: Why 'Lion' Is the Film We All Need to Watch Right Now Image: Mark Rogers © Long Way Home Productions 2015 The Jacob Tremblay of the 2017 awards circuit. It was really beautiful, and little Saroo was so cute. It recognized cultural differences without falling into cliches. I thought it was beautifully shot and the story was compelling, especially knowing that it was true. But the middle dragged a bit, and I didn't find the Google Earth search that compelling, and Nicole Kidman's character was kind of irritating. The beginning was compelling, with Saroo getting lost and the way it was shot, so you were kind of spatially disoriented but focused on his face/his being scared and confused. It was somewhere between okay and pretty good for me.
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I would say that this film should be required viewing for Global Citizens right now - at a time when we have political leaders advocating for closed borders and disavowing the importance of a global perspective, it was refreshing to watch a movie that is clearly a rejection of this worldview. I loved it - I thought it told an amazing story about both sides of a complicated adoption process. Let's start with your basic assessment of the movie - did you or did you not like it, and why. What follows is a transcript of that conversation. Rather than write a traditional review of the film, which has been nominated for a handful of Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor and Actress, for Patel and Kidman's work, we decided to host a chat about the film on Slack. Global Citizen was lucky enough to host a screening of "Lion," a film starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman about an Indian boy's search for his birth mother, from whom he was separated from at age 5 after mistakenly taking a train across the country and eventually being adopted by a family in Australia.
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