Connects with your heart

Rating: 9/10 (19 October 2019)

The movie LION connected with my Heart for several reasons....a few:
If you have a child, you know what it feels like losing him for even for a second, let alone a life time. Imagine having him shout out your name helplessly time and again while the sounds of crowds and blazing train horns muffle his sounds...I can't bear it and it was gut wrenching to see the movie capture it so realistically...all I wanted to do was kiss my boy and tell him I love him so much..
The second thing which really touched me was how the beautifully the movie attempted to connect back to the past, the past you really loved but left behind long ago......the desire to reach out and re live those moments, an attempt to go through the journey once again, a past etched in your memories as it was....
Having to let go of places you grew up, friends that were your life as a child but taken away is very difficult, the desire to just go back once to connect is so strong. Only someone who has had to move on often as a child or even as an adult can feel the pain and the need to connect so strongly.
Interestingly the past not may be as you imagined it to be when you revisit it years down the line but what's really special is those memories.. the memories will always be special - friends you wished never grew up, places you wished never changed. It's what we call in common terms nostalgia and beauty of it is that things, people, places move on but memories and Nostalgia never does. Which is why it is so special to have it deep inside you, uncorrupted, untouched from reality. The movie captured the emotions beautifully.