Better Storytelling: Fact V. Fiction

Rating: 6/10 (24 May 2017)

I really like the basic story here and the actors are all top-notch. But, honestly, I was not as wrapped up in the narrative as I should have been. I think the script meanders and stalls too much in getting to the core mission animating the film: finding Saroo's mother. That's what we want to see. Instead, we get lots of up/down melodrama in Australia while I felt "come on, get on with it." When the grown Saroo finally makes the trip. His reunification is so easy and coincidental that it comes as a let down (Note: This may have been the way it happened in real life, but real life does not always make good fiction) I see most people give this film high marks. I wanted to like it more but too many times, it zigged where I thought it should zag, leaving me impatient, bored and frustrated.