Amazing Movie

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2017)

*** This movie is free of sexism and political correctness. I've added this note because so few movies meet this criteria today ***
It's not often that I give a movie 10/10, but Lion definitely deserved it. There's a sincerity, a truth and some solid acting by Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman that support an excellent story. Dev even manages to pull off the first perfectly forged Australian accent i've ever heard in a film.
If you are thinking that Lion is the usual cheesy Hollywood pulp, I didn't find that at all. I'd even say that most of these types of movies normally irritate me. This story mostly avoided those clichés. Although, I feel the weak point of the movie was Rooney Mara who was (thankfully) the only blight of the movie. Rooney certainly isn't the lovable, friendly girl next door who would fall for the boy in the story.
I found just about every aspect of the story believable and relatable. The story starts with two brothers surviving day by day in an isolated Indian town. Through a series of events, the youngest boy is caught on a train that takes him far away from his home.
If you manage to sit through this movie without a tear in your eye, you did better than I did. This movie was the unspoken hero of the Oscars.