![]() If you're in the mood for a heart wrenching drama with an uplifting ending, go watch this one once its out! The lead cast as well as supporting members have all done a wonderful job. I kid you not, I could hear the whole theatre crying during several parts of the movie and most people had tissues in their hands. Do children every fully recover from traumatic childhood experiences? Does one forget their original family if they never see them again after the age of 5? As an adopted child do you ever completely feel like you fit into your new life? What is the bond with your adoptive parents like? The film touches upon all these themes while primarily being about the physical and emotional journey of a young man finding his way back home with very few clues to work with. The movie explores some great themes: What happens to lost children in developing countries? How do poor, illiterate citizens of a country go about finding their lost children.who helps them? What are the dangers faced by these lost children? Why do certain people choose to adopt? How do adopted children adapt to their surroundings? Especially when they're transplanted so many miles away from home where they do not even speak the language. It would be difficult to watch any child go through what he did and the fact that he was absolutely adorable looking made it even harder. Special shoutout to the young actor who played little Saroo. ![]() ![]() He managed to make you feel the character's pain just by the way he looked at a jalebi (indian sweet that his brother and him fantasized about back in India). There wasn't a single scene in the movie which doesn't suck you in. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. The fact that one boy survived this situation and went on to tell his story is very inspiring and this fantastic film did justice to showing it on screen. A Long Way Home: A Memoir - Ebook written by Saroo Brierley. They either end up dead or in the hands of heartless people who use children for various illegal / unethical operations. This happens there everyday.and most children never find their way back. I mean just the thought of a 5 year old separated from his family for 25 years is bad enough, add in the fact that he was lost in India, a country of over a billion people and was the child of an uneducated poor single mother and you are looking at a very stressful situation. I saw the trailer a few days before the screening and I have to admit the trailer alone made me a little emotional. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a family in Australia. Lion is a triumphant true story of survival against all odds and a shining example of the extraordinary feats we can achieve when hope endures.Just saw this at TIFF. Saroo Brierley, Click to preview Can you imagine being lost and not finding your way home again Saroo Brierley became lost on a train in India at the age of five. And how, at thirty years old, with some dogged determination, a heap of good luck and the power of Google Earth, he found his way back home. How he then ended up in Tasmania, living the life of an upper-middle-class Aussie. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Lion: A Long Way Home. ![]() How he ended up on the streets of Calcutta. Lion: A Long Way Home - Ebook written by Saroo Brierley. ![]() This is the story of what happened to Saroo in those twenty-five years. until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. ![]()
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