Audiences will audibly gasp at the circumstances that lead to his separation from his family, and there will be (many) tears as he narrowly escapes the grips of people who would surely do him harm. Director Garth Davis' adaptation of Brierley's memoir starts off strong, with the charming, big-eyed Pawar playing adorable young Saroo. Show moreīe prepared to cry - a lot - at this wonderfully cast tearjerker about a man who searched for his birth family across a continent, with only decades-old memories to guide him. And underlying everything are powerful lessons about perseverance, gratitude, family bonds, and the power of technology. Adults (twentysomethings) drink at dinner parties, restaurants, and at home there's also cigarette smoking and infrequent strong language ("s-t," "ass," etc.). When the action switches to Saroo's adulthood, there are scenes of implied sex (he and his girlfriend are in bed, half dressed) and passionate kissing. Children are shown in danger - including a disturbing scene in which homeless children are abducted as they sleep, one in which young Saroo is physically inspected in a creepy manner, and others in which he's forced to live on the streets with no shelter or food.
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Based on Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home, the movie chronicles how Saroo ( Dev Patel) used Google Earth to track down his birth family after a 25-year separation. The story of Mullo and his family returning home will be told in our film.Parents need to know that Lion is an emotional biographical drama about Saroo Brierley, who was lost to his family in India at age 5 after ending up on a train bound more than 1,000 kilometers away from his hometown.
He knows that there will be no school, no shops, and no medical care there, but it doesn’t stop him.
Mullo makes the decision to return to the mountains, to the Jaghnobe Valley. In the beginning of the film we will meet Mullo making his choice. The sacrifice of the whole nation was made in vain. Due to lack of water, cotton poorly grows here. By the way, Hungry Steppe (Zafarabod and Gissar regions) never met the expectations of the Soviet cotton industry. It’s a small town in the Hungry Steppe of Tajikistan, capital of cotton district. Mullo, his wife, five daughters and two sons live on the edge of Zafarabod. Once it took one day to get them to the helicopters and remove from their homeland, but the long way home took them forty years. In the 90s, after the collapse of the Soviet Empire, many of the Yaghnobe people found strength to come back to the highlands, and at the very least life in the mountains revived. The ones who miraculously survived on the cotton fields put up with their fate and adapted to their new life. Many, including the Mullo family, would unauthorizedly return to the mountains - but they were again brought to the plain by military helicopters. And there were reasons! On the plain, due to the drastic change of the climate conditions, chemicals which were used to fertilize the cotton and backbreaking labor, the Yaghnobe began to die.
The official reason was the care for the Yaghnobe, who allegedly lived in non-human conditions-out of civilization, in the Stone Age.īadly educated people, who lived in isolation for centuries, treated this resettlement as a curse from the God, who sent them to Hell. In 1970, under the Soviets, these people were forced to move from a remote highland area to lowlands, to the so-called Hungry Steppe-actually, a desert: the Empire’s cotton fields needed workers. The main character, Mullo, belongs to the ancient Yaghnobi nation living in the highlands of Tajikistan.įorty years ago, when he was 11, his family and the whole nation shared the life of ancient Roman slaves condemned to the galleys.
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