Namaste

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2017)

**** May contain strong spoilers ****
This is a review made by StoneDraim... and that means that if you want to read a probably different kind of review, keep reading....
This is my personal experience, my personal point of view/perspective and my personal opinion... and my opinion is just one of like 7 billions in this world.
In the deep of India lives a family. Poor, trying to get food each day. Two boys striving together, just to come home to their mother each evening. One day, one of the brothers is gone missing, waiting for the other brother. A train takes the brother 1200 kilometres away to Calcutta. Lost... This is the the beginning of a wonderful and heartbreaking movie named "Lion". 25 years passes; and the now adopted man returns to seek for his biological family.
"Lion" is... I'm trying to find words.... Fantastic! Due to that it is a true story, it is marvellous! As a bearer of India in my heart (Mumbai and Goa 2002), I've seen the poverty and the hunger in the misery on the streets of India. To understand all that, You have experience it there yourself... in India. As a traveller there about 15 years ago, "Lion" found it place directly in my heart.
This movie is allowed to show India its pure nature; raw, ugly, poor, religious, sad... to grasp all that and still deliver the true story within "Lion" is astonishing!
I close this review right away, just to give you the time to experience it yourself. Academy Award winner for Best Picture 2016?
Over to the movie as a product: - The production : Academy award nominations. Period. - The actors : Academy award nominations. Period. I love Dev Patel. - Entertainment : I cried more than four times during "Lion". I laughed. I felt warmth. This is true entertainment taken from reality. - Age : 11 or 15, due to psychological aspects
8,4 out of 10. (The final rate is based most on my own entertainment of the movie. Short elucidation of the rating: 9 Brilliant and admirable 8 Excellent movie and a solid production)