A journey of hope and determination

Rating: 8/10 (2 May 2018)

Lion is about a five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, where he is adopted by an Australian family in Tasmania. After 25 years he sets out to find his family.
It is an inspiring and beautiful movie that explores the ideas of hope, determination and aspects of origin and identity. By having the first half of the movie in Hindu it captures the authenticity of this story. Many people may believe that having sub titles people won't want to read them. However this was the complete opposite for me, during the film it didn't even feel like it was an effort to read them.
However, during the middle of the movie when he was using google maps to search for his home town, it dragged out to long. In between the main character Saroo searching using the platform google earth many complications occur which drag outs the process.
I think the fact that this is a true story played a massive part in the conclusion having such an impact on me. By including the description, facts and images of the real life footage makes this a powerful film that addresses the issue of young children in India. It makes people question what happens to children that do actually get lost. Who helps lost children? What are the dangers faced by these lost children? Why do certain people choose to adopt?? How do the parents go about trying to find them? Do people and companies actually help look for the parents of these lost children?
Overall this was a great movie to watch, with excellent actors and a great simple storyline!