less than I expected

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2016)

I literally took ALL my family to the cinema because of my enthusiasm but the more the film was flowing the more it was going to the wrong direction. I admit I was pretty surprised in the first part. I didn't expect that the troubled events of the little Saroo would have had so much space. By the way, a good surprise. Sunny Pawar is absolutely perfect, and for all the first hour we are captured in his story full of suspense and fear, a realistic picture of the most chaotic India. But then we wake up, we put the head out of the sea and the little 5 years old Saroo now is 25 and has the beard. that's where I started to be confused. we get involved to his new life, he has a girlfriend, a bad relationship with his 'brother', a deep mother-child relation with his mum, and on the contrary a very undefined one with his father. But from here the rhythm of the story become more and more swell and slow, without going deeply in the middle of all grown up Saroo relations. the result is a very long second hour, quite boring and full of unnecessary parts. In this moments of confusion we find a little bit of hope while returning to India and we are given a very touching last five minutes. So my thoughts at the end is that this is a great and moving story, worth to watch but developed in a wrong and shallow way.