Film Review︱"Lion" No matter how far away you are, you still have to go home to see your mother

In family-searching programs, you will always see scenes of lost children reunited with their relatives and crying. At such times, many people will get wet in their eyes.

In one sentence, the movie "Lion" is a story about finding a family. A child who had been missing for 25 years found his home based on his memory and feelings.

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Such a story of finding a relative happens in China, and it is a miracle to find it. If you search across borders, you can still find it, which is simply a legend.

What is valuable is that such a legend is true.

The film "Lion" is adapted from the biography of Australian writer Saroo Brierley. It is his own personal experience that has touched thousands of readers.

So, what kind of story did this Salu Brierley experience?

This starts from his childhood, that fragile five-year-old boy.

The movie starts from Salo’s childhood. The running time of the story is 118 minutes. The story takes place in 1986. The movie will be released on June 22, 2017. At that time, our protagonist Salo (the name of the person in the movie) was just five years old. She is a cutie with brown skin, black curly hair, and big eyes.

A five-year-old child usually acts like a spoiled child in the arms of his parents. However, this child from a poor family is so precocious that he and his brother Gudu have begun to steal coal on the running train. Use the stolen coal to exchange for two small bags of milk for the family to drink.

Saroo seems to have no father, and there is no explanation in the movie. There seemed to be only three of their children at home, as well as a younger sister. His mother was illiterate and uneducated, and worked as a coolie, moving rocks.

They live in a small house in a small village in India, where there are trees, water and railroad tracks. Life lacks color and the whole picture is almost gray. poverty. dirty. Fortunately, there is love at home. My mother and brother love Salo very much.

If life continues like this, in fact, there is nothing to say. When Salo grows up, he will definitely work as hard as his brother.

However, the goddess of fate sometimes plays a trick and makes you take a train 8,900 kilometers away from your hometown.

One night, his brother Gudu went to work at the train station to make money. Little Saro had to insist on going. My brother had no choice but to take it with him. As a result, when I arrived at the station, my brother had to work, and Salo fell asleep. So the brother let Salo lie down on the dirty wooden chair at the station and went to work. Before leaving, he also told me not to run around and just stay there. When I came back, I bought him sugar ears (an Indian snack, fried, somewhat similar to our country’s fried twists, and some places also call them sugar ears).

When Salo woke up, it was already late at night. A man walks on an empty platform. I can't find my brother either. Perhaps out of fear, he climbed onto a train. A train about to be scrapped.

He didn’t know that it would be twenty-five years since he left. He didn't know that this journey would involve crossing an ocean. He didn't know that this move would completely change his destiny.

He didn't know that just when he climbed onto the abandoned train, his brother had been hit and killed by the train. He didn't know such sad news until more than twenty years later.

If he didn't climb on the train, he wouldn't be able to wait for his brother.

However, a five-year-old child got on a train heading far away. Running towards an unknown destiny.

But it made the audience particularly worried. Such emotional stories, especially movies with children as the protagonists, have extremely strong emotional tension.

At this time, every audience sitting in front of the screen is probably tightly captivated by the fate of the five-year-old baby in the movie.

In the Indian movie "Little Lolita and Uncle Monkey God", there is also a story about a deaf-mute little girl who was thrown away on a train. However, the little girl was soon sent back by the kindhearted Monkey God.

However, in this movie "Lion", the time span is too long, with 25 spring, summer, autumn and winter in between.

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The train finally stopped. Stopped in Kolkata, the third largest city in India. There is also a wide river there which is the Hooghly, a tributary of the Ganges. Little Salo once looked aimlessly by the river.

Calcutta is as far away from Salo’s home as heaven. But, how could a five-year-old child know this?

Hungry and cold, Salo got out of the train. Calling loudly, brother, mother. However, the bustling crowd was as cold as a desert. No one cares about this child's current situation. That kind of cry is really heartbreaking.

Before Salo was adopted by Australian adoptive parents, Salo wandered in the city for almost two months. They survive by picking up trash and eating leftovers or sacrifices.

Through the eyes of a five-year-old child, the movie takes us, the audience, to see the life of the lower class people in India. It is really dirty, messy, poor, worrying, and worrying. Of course, that was 1986, and now, things should be going well.

Later, Salo was sent to an orphanage by a kind person. The environment there is not much better, the conditions are extremely poor.

However, Salo did not stay here long before he was adopted by a pair of Australian parents and lived a happy and prosperous life ever since. His adoptive parents were at least middle class and not short of money.

The movie is basically divided into two parts. The first part mainly talks about Salo’s family and the process of loss in his childhood.

In the latter part, the plot jumps a lot. As soon as the camera flashed, Salo grew up.

It mainly talks about Salo who grew up well-educated, had a beautiful and considerate girlfriend, and an emotionally restless brother.

Although he is an adopted child, Salo's adoptive parents treat him very well.

The adoptive mother Sue is played by Nicole Kidman. At this time, Nicole Kidman is almost fifty years old. She played a kind and gentle adoptive mother very well.

The adoptive father John Blair is played by the famous Australian movie star David Wenham. He has participated in many movies, such as "300", "Van Helsing", "Oranges and Sunshine", etc.

Rich and loving, it is more appropriate to describe this couple. It’s not that they can’t have children, they just want children in such poor areas to have a chance to see the world.

They adopted two children, and Salo grew up well. Good health and sunny personality. However, their other child has psychological problems, perhaps caused by his family of origin. Always attacking yourself. Such children generally have very low self-esteem. You can imagine the sorrow he experienced in his childhood. Even though he later came to his adoptive father's and adoptive mother's house and was treated tenderly, he still could not get out of the abyss in his heart. It can be seen that childhood has an impact on a person.

Saro’s girlfriend is played by Rooney Mara. She is an American and a famous movie star. She has participated in many movies and won many awards. She is a powerful actor. There are also good performances in this movie.

Food has a memory. When we grow up and leave home, what we miss most may be the food cooked by our mother.

Homalo Cantu once said:

We all have deep memories of the food we ate as children... Food It has the power to take us back in time.

When Salo grew up, he was awakened by an accidental encounter with a plate of delicious food, or candy ears, a snack from his hometown.

At that moment, he burst into tears while eating the candy. Memories from my childhood are like a breeze blowing against my face.

He thought of his brother, his mother, the mountains and rivers of his hometown, and his unbearable experience of getting lost on a train when he was a child...

His A strong desire arose in his heart. He longed to find his home and his mother.

In the movie, Salo's inner struggle is shown more. He is well-educated, has a beautiful girlfriend, and an adoptive father and mother who love him. He feels that his search for his biological mother is betrayal and immoral.

In this struggle, I am still searching.

We say that changes in society must be caused by rapid advances in technology.

Thanks to technology, every one of us who loves to write can write hundreds of thousands of words without using a printing press or buying a large stack of manuscript paper. We can use a smartphone. .

The same goes for Salo. He uses Google Maps, the most convenient tool. Searching bit by bit based on the fragmented memories that remain from childhood.

Delineate the scope, determine the search radius, and advance inch by inch. It is said that in the original work, this search process took five years. But, in movies, time is compressed. He soon found his hometown, the land, the mountains and water, and the joy of childhood.

The luckiest thing about Salo is meeting a pair of great adoptive parents. When they learned of Salo's idea, they did not stop him. Instead, lovingly let him go and let him go home.

There are so many street children in India, and there are too few who are as lucky as Saroo. Perhaps it is this unique life experience that creates a writer.

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The climax of the movie, and the most tear-jerking part, is the meeting with my old mother after 25 years of separation. Reunion.

For such an emotional drama, you need to prepare tissues.

The sadness, the taste of life, the joys and sorrows, the intersection of sorrow and joy, really cannot be described in words.

You can experience it yourself.

In the subtitles at the end of the film, Salo's old mother said that she was shocked "like being struck by lightning" and the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the ocean."

This old mother lost two sons at the same time twenty-five years ago. A death. One is missing. The mental trauma she endured is self-evident.

She is given very few scenes in the movie. It just appeared in Salo's constant flashbacks.

However, when she finally met her child, she had silver hair and deep wrinkles on her face, which seemed to explain everything.

Saro is played by Dave Parter, an Indian-British man. Participated in movies such as "Slumdog Millionaire", "Hotel Bombay", "The Personal History of David Copperfield", etc. He has won many awards and is a rising star.

In this movie, he perfectly captured Salo's inner struggle and entanglement between two families.

As for why the movie is called "Lion", it is because the name of the protagonist means lion in India.

This movie has a Douban score of 7.2, which is quite high. It can be said that it was well-received and well-received. It has won six Oscars. It would be a pity to miss it.

Finally, let me end with a comment from the New York Daily News:

A true story plus the main creator Their impeccable acting skills make the entire film both wild and elegant.