I thank you

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2017)

I just finished to watch the movie two hours ago. I've been using these hours to adjust my emotions, compose myself, elaborate, call my mother and my grandma on the phone and restore my balance once again. I can't even describe where to start to explain one of the most touching, moving, elevating experiences in all my adult life in front of a screen. I'm a 42 years old woman, I began going to movie theaters at 4 years old, with my parents, about twice a month, since then I've never stopped chewing films one by one, week after week, year after year. I'm neither an expert reviewer nor a proper critic, not a pro in the field. I've just seen a lot, and I mean a LOT, of movies in my life, from Italy (where I come from) to France, from US to UK, from Iran to China and Australia, from Mexico to Spainwell, I didn't see this coming! "Lion" literally teared me apart , chopped my guts, shook every fiber of my being and rebuilt me with my heart wide opened. I'm keeping it in my very hands right now! I started crying after few minutes from the beginning 'till the very end. I was a child, I was the child. The more Saroo was trying to find his roots, his particular unique whereabout, the more I was feeling that mine no longer belongs to my country, my specific culture, my city. I was just enjoying my worldwide connection, my cum-passione, my sym-patia: I felt Empathy. I felt mankind. I sensed the delicacy and the innocence of butterflies, the brutality of ignorance, the violence of poverty, the fear of injustice the beauty of rely on genuine family bonds. I felt the courage, the strength, the resilience that a man can bring, I felt Love. For That (!!) I wanna thank you all: Garth Davis, Luke Davies, Saroo Brierley and the crew, the whole cast and all the producers, for making me live one of the best moments that Cinema has ever been able to give me. Maybe because I think that Cinema is the Hegelian Absolute of human expression, or, perhaps, It was only a particular unconscious mood of my today, anyway, whatever! With all my sincere gratitude, Giorgia, from Milan.