【Supplement】Against Enormous Odds

Einar 2022-01-27 08:05:20

The 2017 awards season is treasured in my heart. 6 nominations are basically escorts.

For a long time, I was used to watching a movie and writing two or three movie reviews casually, and I still felt that I was very cultural and cool. This is especially true when it comes to awards season, and I think I'm so self-righteous as if I really became a judge. What are the scenes, lines, editing, and soundtracks to pay tribute to, pretending to comment calmly. But in the end, really like is emotional. This is also the first time in a long time that I want to write so many words.

Let's talk about the actors first. I want to give little Salo 10,000 stars. That little milky voice is too cute to bear every time she shouts "Gudu". The acting is terrible. But a child can't act, he's just that simple. Dev Patel, I think many people know that he is from "Slumdog Millionaire", but when I see him, I will always remember the outrageous Pakistani Muslim in "Skins", crazy stupid, other people's youth. 10 years later, he has become such a handsome and excellent actor. Although Rooney Little White Rabbit has very few scenes, she is really beautiful, and she and Dev have unexpected CP sparks. Finally, give Nicole a heart!

Little Saru accidentally got on the train and went to the faraway Bangladesh, where he spent the night in a tunnel, thinking that he had met a good-hearted person, but he narrowly escaped the fate of being abducted and sold twice. He was pitiful. How lucky he was to be adopted by a couple far away in Australia among so many children in that orphanage. All these opportunities and coincidences, accidental and inevitable, every step is completely changing a child's life.

Recently I was rereading "Singing Back in the Mountains", and I deeply agreed with a passage about parenting in it. "She is furious with herself for her own stupidity, Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enourmous odds, that a world you do not control will not take away from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you."

Later Nicole's line, "I can have children, we choose not to have children, that's one of the reasons why I fell in love with your father. Because we all feel that there are enough people in this world to have a baby. Children, nothing is guaranteed to be better. But it means a lot to take a child who is in trouble like you and give you a chance." You could say she's the Virgin. A lot of people say that. But I felt a sympathy in my heart.

In the end, like all stories based on true events, all the unbelievable on the screen is made more moving by knowing they are real. The subtitles at the end of the film are sensational enough, and they are almost promiscuous. I also know that my point is sometimes very strange, and there are always some strange movies that I like and feel sad for inexplicable. When I saw the last Gudu died, and the last easter egg paid tribute to my brother. I didn't know until the end why the movie was called Lion, and the moment the word Lion appeared on the screen, I burst into tears.

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Extended Reading

Lion quotes

  • Lucy: [Saroo goes into the kitchen to get a beer. On the way back, he sees some Jalebis, a fried Indian desert, on the counter in a plate. A memory takes him back to his childhood with his older brother, Guddu. He smells it and takes a bite slowly as his girlfriend Lucy comes beside him] Saroo... You OK?

    Bharat: [a male dinner guest comes into the kitchen also and places his hand on Saroo's back] Saroo?

    Saroo Brierley: I'm not from Calcutta... I'm lost.

  • [discussing how to find Saroo's family]

    Dinner Guests: What paper trail?

    Saroo Brierley: My mum could not read or write.

    Dinner Guests: What did she do?

    Saroo Brierley: A labourer... she carried rocks.

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