{"id":6380,"date":"2017-02-03T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2017-03-03T06:43:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:43:47","slug":"lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6380","title":{"rendered":"Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lion,

Rooney Mara & Dev Patel<\/p><\/div>\n

Another current movie that\u2019s a fan favorite is Lion<\/em> (trailer<\/a>), well worth seeing for the heart-warming true story and excellent acting. Garth Davis directed and Luke Davies wrote the screenplay, based on Saroo Brierley\u2019s book, A Long Way Home<\/em><\/a>, and the movie was lovingly filmed in Kolkata and Tasmania by cinematographer Greig Fraser .<\/p>\n

The story begins in 1986, when five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) becomes separated from his older brother at a train station. He falls asleep on a decommissioned train and can\u2019t get off for several days. Meanwhile, it has traveled far from his home, reaching the sprawling city of Kolkata. At the time, Kolkata had approximately 10 million residents, including thousands of orphans, and was full of dangers for a child\u2014especially one from a rural area who could not speak the local Bengali. Some effort is made to help him find his family, but he doesn\u2019t know enough. Eventually he\u2019s adopted by an Tasmanian couple, Sue and John Brierley (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham).<\/p>\n

Only when Saroo is a young adult (Dev Patel) does the technology come along\u2014Google Earth\u2014that may be able to help him find home. The search becomes a secret obsession, threatening his relationship with his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and the parents who raised him. It\u2019s worth the price of admission to see the happy-go-lucky Patel\u2019s moment of overwhelming loss that starts this quest, triggered by the sight of the red jalebis<\/a> he wanted as a child. With his hair grown out and shaggy, he even starts to look like a lion.<\/p>\n

The story is rather straightforwardly about love, but what could have been overly sentimental is brought to a higher plane by virtue of the solid acting performances. Sunny Pawar, who plays the young Saroo is a marvel!<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 rating 86%; audiences 93%.<\/p>\n

\"Sunny

Sunny Pawar meets Barack Obama<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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