The opening of the film uses a documentary approach to film life in India, from the dilapidated streets to the clutter of the market, to the Salo brothers who have to rely on stealing coal from the train in exchange for two bags of milk to support their family life. , are very realistic and real, allowing the audience to fall into the country atmosphere of India at once. For this reason, I have to praise such a documentary-like shooting method, coupled with the beautiful soundtrack, it is really immersive, and the film won half of it with such an opening.
The biggest highlight in the film is probably the young actor Saro, who insisted on following his brother to work until he got lost, and then got on a train that was bound for nowhere. He was almost sold and transferred to an orphanage. Adopted by an Australian couple. Before being adopted, the performance of the young actor Saro fully demonstrated the panic and ignorance of a lost child. With the vivid eyes, it is really pitiful.
The film is based on a true story about an Indian boy who was lost for 25 years and finally found his hometown and his biological mother. On the basis of such a good story, the film has won a lot, but after the male protagonist was triggered to "return to his hometown", it undoubtedly made a perfect and somewhat exaggerated advertisement for Google Maps. The article is all about how to use Google Maps and scattered memories to find the train station where he was lost and find his hometown. In fact, for normal people, the age when Salo was lost is already a memory, but in 25 years After that, the possibility of being able to be perfectly restored to the original memory by a map is a bit exaggerated.
In addition, the ending of the story also makes people feel that it is quite easy to come. The male protagonist finds the exact location of his hometown according to the search of Google Maps, and returns to the original home to find that his mother has moved, and then a person comes out. There he welcomed his mother. Then the two embraced and cried, and the story ended. For a story with the theme of "searching for relatives", the usual ending is a lot of hard work, but this movie's ending is unexpectedly easy and lucky. It's a bit confusing to me.
Of course, there's definitely something to be said for the film's ability to win an Oscar. First of all, the soundtrack of the film is very suitable for the atmosphere of the plot, which can make people immersed in the plot of the story. Secondly, the selected young actors have excellent acting skills, are not pretentious, and have the spirit of Indian children who are happy in poverty, which makes the image of strong, optimistic and smart come to the fore.
And most importantly, the brilliance of humanity conveyed in the film - love. The film was changed from "The Long Way Home", and the name of this one is "LION", which translates as a lion. I think love is the lion in everyone's heart.
Things about lost children happen frequently in India, and the male protagonist of the film can still find his way home after 25 years. It is a miracle in real life, and it is not Google Maps that supports this miracle. , but the mother who was determined not to move, believing that Saro would come back, was love. There is such a sentence in the narration at the end of the film-Kamala said that his son's return was like a "thunder-like surprise". This kind of surprise makes people feel fortunate that the miracle happened, but what really touched the mother's actions. For too many cases of lost children, the stories we hear are mostly the end of the child died or the parents moved away because of sadness, or gave birth to another one, etc., but very few mothers can wait for a seemingly hopeless hope.
And the other mother, the one who played the adopted Salo, was really unimaginable in the pain she suffered after adopting a child who was irritable and uncontrollable. And when Salo thought she adopted them because she was infertile, she said that she adopted them so that children like them could have a chance to connect with the world , which really touched me. Many of us may think like Salo, and this mother's approach is the core of what the director wants to convey. Such a short sentence is enough to make people think deeply about the so-called morality in real life, and it is precisely such a detail that gives this film a new presentation on the theme of family search. In the film, the brilliance and greatness of human nature are presented in two forms of maternal love, one is the love that has been waiting silently for 25 years, and the other is willing to give up childbirth and choose to raise two children who have nothing to do with him in order to make the world a better place. The love that they can have the opportunity to connect with the world. These two kinds of love are extremely great, surpassing many fixed "beliefs" in the mundane world, which makes people think more deeply after watching this film except for a family search story.
Love is the lion in everyone's heart. There is only one word that is enough to transcend time and obstacles to find the relatives and hometown that the heart desires most. If the film is not attached to the real story, when we hear time words like "25 years", we will always feel that it is for the effect of the film, and because it is real, we are a little more moved. For this reason, although "The Lion" is not the most successful film in the theme of finding relatives, it is enough to surprise and move people.
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