'Forced' is the word of the day

Rating: 5/10 (5 March 2017)

Lion is a drama movie about this kid who goes missing, filmed in his perspective.
His upcoming life after that point is filled with wonderful people who don't want anything else than to love and be something that matches the values of "good". Turns out that this kind of values do not create realistic characteristics.
The dialogue is so bad it is comedic. They are basically reading out loud some of the cheesiest feeling related one-liners. Similar you can find from the social media profile of any emo girl who is mad because their father doesn't love them.
The drama is the worst kind, melodrama. We have so much crying scenes, feeling scenes and bullshit psychoanalysis "this is not who you are" scenes that it makes me wonder if that, indeed, is not who they are. Maybe these people are just actors in a movie which aims to make all of its casual viewers cry? Oh, wait.
The audiovisual execution can be summed up with the following sentence: "Let's insert emotional piano music here and hope someone will cry." While piano music does miracles in some cases -such as in Hatchiko (or Hachi: A Dog's Tale as you non-weeb-speakers might call it) - in Lion's case viewer's focus is somewhere else completely.
You will not pay so much attention to the selected scene and the piano track itself as you pay attention to the purpose of the song. "Oh, so this is supposed to be sad and you expect me to cry." It is very amateurish and only way for me to explain myself why anyone would cry is that the viewer has been on the edge recently and about anything would make them cry at this point. Not to mention the ridiculous overuse of songs of this sort. In fact, it is a bgm heavy movie with no other types of tracks.
I did not have problems with the longest music scene where there was no dialog at all, though. But even its value is inferior from what it could have been due to the overuse of this sort of scenes and also due to the former pathetic tries on getting emotions out of the viewer.
Even after all its problems, Lion is still worth of watching, but it is a very average movie which most likely won't offer you anything special.