{"id":37208,"date":"2016-11-22T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=37208"},"modified":"2016-11-23T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:08:08","slug":"lion-garth-davis-2016-india-i-austrailia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=37208","title":{"rendered":"Lion (Garth Davis, 2016): India I Austrailia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lion-dev-patel-rooney-mara-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36955\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lion-dev-patel-rooney-mara-2-325x216.jpg\" alt=\"lion-dev-patel-rooney-mara-2\" width=\"325\" height=\"216\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lion-dev-patel-rooney-mara-2-325x216.jpg 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lion-dev-patel-rooney-mara-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lion-dev-patel-rooney-mara-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lion is a story about Saroo, a brave 5 year old child who gets lost in the streets of India. Separated from his family, Saroo then makes his way to Tanzania\u00a0after being adopted by an Australian couple living there. Years after he was pulled out of the years he suffered, Saroo a man now, struggles to know where he comes from and what has come to happen to his beloved mother and brother Guddu. The movie highlights\u00a0the\u00a0journey Saroo embarks and how he attempts to map his old hometown using memories he remembererd\u00a0since\u00a0he was only 5. Between the directors great vision, cinematography and Patel&#8217;s observable talent, Saroo&#8217;s life\u00a0was remarkably\u00a0researched taking the audience way closer than they had ever imagined. Director Garth Davis&#8217;s task was not an easy one, having to bring someones life and experiences on the screen and expecting audiences to have empathy for a character, laugh when they do, and cry when they do is hard. Though\u00a0Davis was able to capture this competently and take audiences through a series of emotions just in a two and a half hour time frame. The most intriguing\u00a0thing i find about this movie, is not that its theme does not revolve only around\u00a0the life of Saroo, but also shows the harsh reality children in India face each and every day. As Saroo gets lost, he stumbles upon many who refuse to help, some who pretend to help, and the\u00a0very few willing to sacrifice and help a child\u00a0in need. Through the eyes of Saroo, the audience is able to analyze all of these elements\u00a0and is forced to perceive\u00a0how ugly this world can be sometimes, and how big of an effect our loved ones can have on our lives.\u00a0Not just\u00a0does Lion\u00a0show the harsh reality, cultural differences, love and life of Saroo, but also sheds light\u00a0on humanity in its best and worst cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion is a story about Saroo, a brave 5 year old child who gets lost in the streets of India. Separated from his family, Saroo then makes his way to Tanzania\u00a0after being adopted by an Australian couple living there. Years after he was pulled out of the years he suffered, Saroo a man now, struggles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2016","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/111405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}