So I recently watched Lion and I'm here to bring you my review. So without further ado...............
Five year old Saroo (played by Dev Patel) gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
This is a really remarkable and fantastic film to watch. The story behind this film is fascinating in the sense of understanding what this guy has had to go through and how he was able to find happiness in the end. Dev Patel is a phenomenal actor and he has really grown as one over the years and he really just commands the screen in every single frame we see him in. As mentioned with several movies, he is in line to be nominated for an Oscar, but this year is so stacked that it'll be hard for him to truly standout. However while he is great in the film, the more interesting scenes come from Sunny Pawar as a young Saroo as you see the journey he went on and how this whole story became to be. The film does a great job of intertwining both stories and you're able to fully grasp the entire situation seamlessly There is a great supporting cast to help Patel and the real standout is Rooney Mara whose character helps Saroo believe in his mission to find his family and you can feel the emotional connection between the two. That's another thing the film gets right is the emotion and it knows when it needs to be a certain type of emotion and just how much of an emotion is needed for each character for you as an audience member to connect with. If you know the whole backstory to the film then you'll that Hollywood changed a few things so it would be a heart-warming and emotional story, but there are some fine details left out that the movie doesn't cover which is a disappointment because those extra moments might've been able to make the film a little more impactful. Overall this is a marvelous and beautiful film with tremendous performances and a great message, but smaller details left out leave you as an audience member with an unfinished piece of art. I give Lion an 8.5 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of Lion, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
Five year old Saroo (played by Dev Patel) gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
This is a really remarkable and fantastic film to watch. The story behind this film is fascinating in the sense of understanding what this guy has had to go through and how he was able to find happiness in the end. Dev Patel is a phenomenal actor and he has really grown as one over the years and he really just commands the screen in every single frame we see him in. As mentioned with several movies, he is in line to be nominated for an Oscar, but this year is so stacked that it'll be hard for him to truly standout. However while he is great in the film, the more interesting scenes come from Sunny Pawar as a young Saroo as you see the journey he went on and how this whole story became to be. The film does a great job of intertwining both stories and you're able to fully grasp the entire situation seamlessly There is a great supporting cast to help Patel and the real standout is Rooney Mara whose character helps Saroo believe in his mission to find his family and you can feel the emotional connection between the two. That's another thing the film gets right is the emotion and it knows when it needs to be a certain type of emotion and just how much of an emotion is needed for each character for you as an audience member to connect with. If you know the whole backstory to the film then you'll that Hollywood changed a few things so it would be a heart-warming and emotional story, but there are some fine details left out that the movie doesn't cover which is a disappointment because those extra moments might've been able to make the film a little more impactful. Overall this is a marvelous and beautiful film with tremendous performances and a great message, but smaller details left out leave you as an audience member with an unfinished piece of art. I give Lion an 8.5 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of Lion, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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