LION, Trailer - Video credit: movieclipsTRAILERS via Guddu ( Abhishek Bharata) with his younger brother Saroo ( Sunny Pawar) helps his impoverished family delve into the trash and collect everything he finds. One evening, Guddu and Saroo get lost with each other at the train station. Saroo is trying to find Guddu but suddenly finds himself on a train that moves him for thousands of kilometers to Calcutta. The Short Story Of The Movieġ986, North India. This is also very deep, and from some scenes, the heart was simply torn to pieces. But what distinguishes many other films from the LIONis the fact that here we see the sufferings and attempts of Saroo to find a home and his family, while in other films, it was the torment and the searches of mothers. In fact, losing such a young child, and then finding it is a very scary topic and very exciting for every mother. It's a touching movie about a long way home. Once in awhile, a movie comes along that is so touching and sincere, without a moment of false emotion or manipulative self-indulgence, that it establishes squatters’ rights and moves into your heart to stay. It turns out, it can happen, and even more sorrowful, more unbelievable than the Hollywood screenwriters' drafts. If Garth Davis LION's screen would not show a note - based on real events, viewers would be blatantly surprised, talking that director thickens colors, and such cannot happen in life. To six Oscar-nominated biographical drama LION has a base of a real, unique, and incredible story about a man who searched for his own home. Because the first time I watched it on TV and was not fully concentrated on the preview. It so happened that yesterday evening I watched it again. It is not a new film it appeared in 2016, but such movies never lose its value, and it can inspire us to start this year having more dreams and more determination. So today, he benefits from legal status in Finland, allowing him to excel in his studies at an international high school in Helsinki and to imagine a future fully capitalizing on his considerable talents.Ī coda recounts devastating news from home that sends him into a downward spiral and offers a powerful reminder of the fragility of the refugee situation, even for the luckiest and most resilient.Movie LION Review: Long Way Home - Photo credit:, Edotion by Amber255 via He is also, he tells us more than once, exceptionally lucky: unlike many, he meets along the way, he has happened upon people able and willing to help at just the right moments. Over the arc of his story, there emerges a strong sense of him as an uncommonly bright, charismatic, articulate, and resilient young man. In spare and limpid prose, Jawid brings alive one version of the refugee plight, offering the perspective of a young adolescent boy on his own. But very few of them have been in a position to convey this experience to a larger public, and most of us find it very hard to imagine. In many ways, his experience is all too common: thousands have undertaken substantially the same passage in recent years. By turns terrified and hopeful, at the mercy of ruthless operators but also inspired by the bravery and kindness of strangers, he lucidly recounts the experience of pushing his physical and mental limits to keep going on this solo journey across central Asia to Iran, then to Turkey, on to Greece, and finally to join an older brother in Finland. This is a compelling first-person account of Jawid Danish’s multi-year and often harrowing odyssey as an “unaccompanied minor” from Afghanistan seeking refuge in Europe.Īfter the death of both his parents (one to violence, the other to illness), his older brothers encourage him to leave his native village in Afghanistan at age of twelve for a safer life in Europe.
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