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crazyrichxplainr · 1 day

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Dev Patel for The New York Times (ph: Justin J. Wee)

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royalsunshinehotel · 16 days

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social media preference (dev patel)

Anwar Kharral (Skins UK): Anwar is the only one on this list active on TikTok. He's not an uncomfortable teen anymore - he's being cringe on main and setting trends. I bet he's got 90K followers at least! He uses Threads and Instagram to back up his TikTok, not much else.

Sonny Kapoor (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1&2): For the benefit of the hotel, Sonny is active on Reels to promote the corporate 'brand'. He likes the chance to be creative, and the 'Board' likes the chance to show off the handsome CEO.

Neal Sampat (Newsroom): Neal is an OG Tumblr user, who joined the site as early as 2008. As demonstrated on the show, Neal is adept at using Twitter to cross-reference and fact-check various sources, I do think he'd be a prolific shitposter on a side account, rivaling our king @dril.

Deon Wilson (Chappie 2015): Deon is self-explanatory. he likes to support the indie social media sites that sprung up in the wake of the Fall of Twitter. He's a fan of SpaceHey because he went to Computer Camp with the engineer who started it (it's based out of Germany), which he's always wanted to visit!

Sheru “Saroo” Bierley (Lion 2016): I find it harder to deny with each passing day that Saroo Brierly isn't an Instagram thot. Look at @brockohurn on IG and tell me that they don't have the same respectful bro energy. I think Saroo likes the chance to use all the photos in his camera roll, and I think the MILFs of Instagram are grateful for the content.

Jay Menha (The Wedding Guest, 2019): The closest Jay gets to social media is the Polaroids he likes to stick up on the wall of your shared room. Sometimes, if he's having a bad time, he likes to sit in his beanbag and look at the wall. He only gets a ghost Facebook account to keep up with relatives- nothing ever is posted, ever.

David Copperfield (The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2020): I think David would do numbers on Medium.com because he can write self-prompted think-pieces that no one ever asked about, AND get paid for them! He's writing analyses of "Jeyton vs Brucas vs Leyton: One Tree Hill", and he's actually making money. It would be magic to him!

Joshua Madika (Modern Love, 2019): Joshua's social media is all on Tinder. He's perfected his profile, and he likes talking to people. It's all genuine and zero malice. Who wants to be alone with their thoughts?

Sir Gawain (The Green Knight, 2021): I once read a post about Edward Cullen texting that read, "just saw a snail . . . effervescent," and I think that's as close as Gawain should get to the internet. It's just like shitposting, but it's all for you.

Dr. ZZ Chatterjee (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, 2023): ZZ keeps his drama on Facebook. He's definitely showing up in comments to defend someone's mutual friend from accusations of bias when she broke up with her tiny boyfriend because she was having neck problems*. With a doctor on her side, she didn't have to post X-rays of her neck! ZZ will be beefing!

The Kid (Monkey Man, 2024): "Ted, the movie hasn't even come out yet! How can you say The Kid is a Pinterest girlie?" It's all pretty pictures with an indefinite scroll. I also bet he's a big fan of putting things in categories (see also: skittles). We'll see who's right.

*true story circa 2018 on my Facebook page.

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thisissollie · 7 years

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'Lion' Film Review - A True Story Brought To Life

My review of 'Lion', a film based on a book and the true story of Saroo Brierly. Brought to life by the likes of Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Sunny Pawar this film definitely gives the original story some true justice.

Lion is a film based on the book A Long Way Home which tells the true story of Saroo Brierley. Separated from his mother and brother as a child, Saroo is lost in India only to be adopted by Sue and John Brierley and raised in Australia. In his older life, he becomes restless about not knowing about his past, so starts to search for his lost family. The film stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole…

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#2017 Films #a long way home #dev patel #lion #new releases #nicole kidman #rooney mara #saroo brierly #sunny pawar #true story

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ariesdelaiglesia2001-blog · 5 years

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MY FIRST BLOG POST

-Filipino youths are making noise in the social media world.We spend most of our time browsing the internet ,scrolling newsfeed on our accounts,posting our stuffs we are currently into and such.

Nowadays,there is this stuff that a lot of netizens are using to unleash their sentiments,express their thoughts and updating people about the current creating blogs.

Truthfully,I Didn't yet experience making blogs.But if I'll be doing my first writing,I will introduce myself simply.

I will tell the blogging community regarding my not-so confidential personal informations.This will help other people who don't know me yet to take a look at my biographical background and to know me that much.

Attributes that I have will be elaborated.I will convey to the social media enthusiasts my wonderful story.I'll be telling them that I am ARIES DELA IGLESIA a simple person with great personality 17 years old live in LUBO STO NIÑO CAGAYAN.

Also,I'll be reminding them that I am accepting criticisms.The comments that I might receive from the readers are responsible to improve my own craft and to continously writing meaning blogs and I thank you.

1.)Studying in a best school is one of my dream and I Didn't expect that it will come true.Yes,SPUP is one of the best school for me and Im studying here right now.Because I know that this school can lead me to be succesful person someday.And I'm looking forward with it.I wanna be a succesful civil engineer someday and thats what I see myself from 10 years from now.

2.)Well for me i choose this Stem because I want to be a succesful civil engineer someday.Yes I admit that Stem strand is very stressing but i think it's the best choice after all.

3.)Civil Engineering.Because this is my father wants and also my dream.

4.)

5.)How to make an APPS?

*TECH REVIEW*

I Choose Phone Technology

-A mobile phone is a wireless hand held device that allows users to make and receive calls and to send text messages,among other features.The earliest generation of mobile phones may also be known as a cellular phone or simply a cellphone.The earliest cellphones let users acces emails,and use the phone as pager, and address book.In recent years the purpose of the cellphone is to make a easily communicating into others just like family,friends etc.

SUMMARY

-Base on the story of Saroo Brierly who,at the age of 5 year old lives a very poor but happy life his mother Kamla,his younger sister Shekila and his older brother Guddu.Saroo and his older brother Guddu works carrying a stones.One night,Saroo insists on going to Guddu to his work.Guddu leaves Saroo sleeping on a bench chair and asks him to stay there until he returns.Saroo wakes up in the middle of the night and decided to seek out his brother in a train.And he sleep again inside the train and he wakes up and he finds himself alone ang trapped in the moving train.He sleeps again and he wakes up and that train takes him to Calcutta,West Bengal 1600 kilometers east of Khandwa.And Saroo lives on the street of the big city.And one day,a young man brings Saroo to a organization that finds adoptive parents for orphans and lost kids.Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple the brierleys and moves to Hobart,Tasmania.And he is raised with love by his foster parents.Until Saroo met lucy and they become a couple.After 25 years Saroo remember his lost family in his adulthood and that time he began to searching for his Indian family.Until he find his lost family

*GUIDE QUESTIONS*

1.)What life lessons can be learned from the movie?

-For me the lesson that I learned in this movie lion is that have a loss and hope.Because in our life we suffered first and it so many struggle or problem that you will encounter just like what happen in Saroo life because of this problems and struggle in Saroo life he didn't give up and surrender until the time Saroo life have given a Hope and this hope is his family.So remembered that face alk tha challenges and dont give up because thal challenges make you strong.

2.)What part of the story told by the movie was the most powerful ?Why?

-For me the most powerful scene in the movie is when Saroo was separated in his family in India because in his age compared to the other children they will not pass all the struggle that happen in Saroo.But Saroo all tha struggle and problems he face it all he didn't give up and he is a brave child to pass this all the struggle in his life.

3.)Who was your favorite character in the movie?Why?

-My favorite character in this movie is Saroo. Because he is a very brave man enough to face the challenges he encounter to his life and I saw myself to Saroo because we both love our family.

4.)NO

5.)If you had a chance to ask a character in this movie a question,what would it be?

-For me if I was given a chance to ask a question.I like to ask Saroo I would ask him what motivates him to face all tha challenges and struggles in his life at his age 5.

SUMMARY

-In a movie entitled

Wonder,there's a ten year old boy named August Pullman.He is suffering from severe birth defects which have left him disfigured.After years of homeschooling his parents decided to enrol him at Beecher Prep where he meets new friends named Jack Julian and Charlotte.

When halloween arrives,August unintentionally overhears a conversation between Jack and Julian.Jack says he's only nice to August because the school principal asked him to be.Back then,August avoided Jack.

One day,Jack punches Julian for saying mean things about August.Charlottes warns Jack that Julian is turning the entire class against him convincing people that Jack is unstable.Jack start eating lunch with August and his friend Summer.

In a unexpected moment,August was attacked by a group of seventh grade.Julian's bestfriends help August and Jack escape.In the end August wins the henry ward Beecher medal which reserved for an examplary student.August is amazed that he survived fifth grade.His friends and family make him feel like a regular kid.

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paulkhenguerusblog-blog · 5 years

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BLOG #5 (LION SUMMARY)

Saroo lives in very poor but happy life with his mother Kamla, his older broter Gaddu and his younger sister Shekila. Kamla works carrying stones during the night shift and Gaddu also works at the night in the central station. One night, saroo insist on going with Gaddu to his work and does not resist and sleep. Guddu left Saroo sleeping in a bank, however when Saroo wakes up, he decides seeking out his brother in a train, he sleeps again. Only finds himself alone and trapped in a train that takes him to Calcutta, 1600 km east of Khandwa. Now Saroo totally lost in an alien urban environment and struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. Soon, saroo is selected to be adopted by Brierly family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. However, he was haunted by his family he had lost. For 5 long years, Saroo used every spare of moment to search images of rural India. Finally, he found his long-lost mother, who had also spent manyvtearful years searching for him, together with her sister. That day, Saroo finds himself very happy and still can’t believe that he manage to find his lost family. But there was a tragedy amid his joy because his brother, Guddu died, the same night when Saroo had lost, in a desperate search for Saroo.

GUIDE QUESTIONS

1. The Lesson ive'd learned in the story is no what happen dont live your dream behind.

2. The most powerful part of the story is when saroo meet her biologocal mother and sister.

3. My favorite character in the story is saroo why? Because he belived in his self no matter what.

4. Thank God as of now NO

5. I would ask sorro, Gaano mo kamahal ang pamilya mo?

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joshuacalegan-blog · 5 years

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LION (Movie Review)

Blog #4: LION (Movie Review)

Lion breaks your heart into a thousand pieces and puts them back together in the end. Tear ducts will be brimming and your entire being will be awash with incredible joy but also a splash of bittersweet sorrow. Lion is an incredible real life story of Sarro Brierly, a 5-year old Indian boy, who separated from his poor family. An empty train carriage drags him to Kolkata, a city that doesm’t speak his language. Miles away from his home, braving human traffickers and child predators, he eventually gets adopted by a compassionate couple in Australia. Years later, recurring memory flashes of his childhood propel him to search his lost home and birth mother in India, with the help of Google Earth.

Emotional triggers might arrive at several points during this decade- spanning tale of longing and loss that is also a mystery about an unknown past. It is hard sometimes to move forward without knowing where you came from, or having an unanswered questions. Most likely, it is hard to balance how to tell your adoptive parents that you wanted to know who you are without hurting their feelings. A way where they could understand you. In this moment, Saroo need to tell the truth and he guiltily confesses to his adoptive mother, Sue that he has been spending countless days doing research while seeking out for his bioligical family. He did not inform them in the first place, wanting not to hurt this two incredibly generous and supportive parents who rescued him from the years of poverty, hunger and potential abuse.

1) The story is equally compelling as it makes you see yourself in Saroo and endure his pain. The lessons that can be learned from the story is how to surpass your fears in this kind of changing world. Moreover, being concern and compassionate to someone without waiting in return. Likewise, openness to the person who gave you everything.

2) For me, the most powerful part of the the movie is when a big revelation happened that made a tower of maternal tenderness and immense devotion as Nicole Kidman(adoptive mother)explained to Saroo why they adopted him wherein she could have her own children. Likewise, Saroo can’t speak the local language and eventually reduced to sleeping in tunnels and stealing foods from public shrines. But somehow his innate street smarts kick in, allowing Saroo to survive. With these struggles in life and with the help of his adoptive parents, Saroo had become bright and confident person who enrolled in a hospitality course.

3) Saroo is my favorite character in the story. Struggles come into his life but he still manage to survive and it made him stonger and wise man. He taught us how to deal and overcome with things that we may encounter and to never give up. Continue believing that you can achieve. Another reason why Saroo, he made me realize there will always be ways or solution s in every problem we have in life.

4) I am not an adopted child and I never had experienced such struggles like Saroo had, but my mother is away from us. She sacrificed just to send us to school. With that, we had our relatives and friends beside us who are willing to guide and support us. They have shown their concern I have also this friend whom I consider a brother not by blood but by heart, he is always there to support me as long as he can. So we may be adopted by our relatives by taking care of us.

5) “What made you stronger despite your struggles in life? What made you realize of finding your true family? Why?” These are the questions I would like to ask to Saroo.

Lion is sad yet uplifting, frighting yet inspirational. They let us realized that we need to be thankful with the life we had now because we do not know the struggles of other people on our world. It makes us believe in miracles and embrace hardships by celebrating courage and resilience in its unique way. BELIEVE, YOU CAN!

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ktienh · 2 years

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#DymocksReadingChallenge 📚 1️⃣6️⃣ A book published this year: The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni (read 6/8) 🌼🌼🌼 1️⃣7️⃣ A book from Dymocks Top 101: Lion by Saroo Brierly (read 22/8) 🦁🦁🦁 1️⃣8️⃣ Ask a friend for a recommendation: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (read 16/10) 🕸🕸🕸 -thanks @read3rz_revu 😘 1️⃣9️⃣ A book based on truth: Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung (read 27/10) 💎💎💎💎 2️⃣0️⃣ A book you've always meant to read: The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth (read 25/11) 💛💛💛 . #ThePrisonHealer #LynetteNoni #fantasy #youngadult #Lion #SarooBrierly #memoir #HouseOfHollow #KrystalSutherland #horror #UnpolishedGem #AlicePung #memoir #pocauthor #litcelebrasian #TheWildGirl #Kate Forsyth #historicalfiction #australianwomenauthors #AussieAuthors https://www.instagram.com/p/CWzo0ULLXZV/?utm_medium=tumblr

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maddyanarchist · 4 years

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LION

WELCOME BACK AGAIN TO THE WEEKLY FILM REVIEW SERIES, SOME THOUGHTS, INSIGHTS, SNNIPETS & WHAT MAKES IT SO UNIQUE.

This is one of the few rich movies I have seen so far & by the term rich I don’t mean visually , or some heavy commercially viable film. The film is in itself a rich source of content since it has in it ingrained all sorts of the varied mix of different interpersonal relationships & above all making the audience believe that the theme ‘HUMANITY’ still exists!

SYNOPSIS: The story is about the journey of a five year old SAROO from the KHANDWA DISTRICT of MADHYA PRADESH in INDIA , TO AUSTRALIA. SAROO , belongs from a poor family, the breadwinner being his mother only , & he has a elder brother ‘GUDDU ‘ & has a younger sister. They have a very menial income wherein SAROO ‘s mother works as a labourer carrying rocks, his brother works in a mill & sometimes they both steal coal from freight trains to trade for milk & food. Although they live in acute poverty , but as a family even in such hardship they all live happily. One day , SAROO ACCOMPANIES his brother to his job at the mill late in the night & they arrive at a nearby train station, where SAROO decides to stay back & take a nap. GUDDU tries to wake him up , but SAROO feels a lot tired . AFTER some hours when GUDDU does’nt return from his work SAROO searches for him & boards a train presuming GUDDU is aboard. He falls asleep again in one of the compartments & wakes up to find the train in motion, while he shouts & shrieks for hep , but all in vain. After several days, the train arrives in a faraway station in CALCUTTA, WEST BENGAL wherein he does’nt get to understand the language very much. He stands at the ticket counter & tries to obtain a ticket home , but the attendant does’nt recognise the name of the village, hence he ultimately finds shelter along with the street children , until he wakes up & is forced to run when a group of man tries to kidnap him. This is the first time he got the experience of human trafficking.

After a few days , SAROo comes across NOOR , a seemingly friendly woman who takes him back to her apartment. She tells SAROO that a man named RAMA will help him find his way back home. Something does’nt click in the tone of the words RAMA & SAROO feels suspicious about their intentions, so he listened to his gut & ran away. After a few days he is helped by a young man who takes him to the police station , but unable to trace any information , they put him in an orphanage. Three months later , he is adopted by an AUSTRALIAN couple , little did he realise he has to shift to TASMANIA , miles away from his home. But he did’nt have any inch of fear left inside him & he gracefully accepts them as his parents. He also has an adopted brother MANTOSH , another fellow adopted by his adopted parents, but soon he realises MANTOSH is not that cooperative &with his parents. This makes SAROO ‘s adopted mother emotionally beaten & anxious. Even if SAROO is of a tender age , he understands his mother & lovingly embraces his support without even questioning anything. That displays his level of maturity.

Time passes & he grows with time in to a young gentleman , who is now all set to go to the UNIVERSITY of MELBOURNE to complete his hotel management degree. The fact that has not changed is the behaviour of MANTOSH towards his mom , & this upsets him & also his mother who considers herself guilty for the same. Here is when audience comes to know that MANTOSH lives seperate from SAROO & HIS PARENTS , because that is a way he tries to protect them for from the insecurities he has inside of him ,which also shows that MANTOSH is concerned for his adopted parents , but his disability ha s made him a lot more pessimistic in life. In MELBOURNE SAROO falls in love with LUCY & they both go on pretty well. One fine afternoon they arrive to the student housing wherein all the group were having Indian cuisine, & though SAROO seemed to have moved ahead in life , when he treads in to the kitchen , after finding a JALEBI laid down on the table , he takes a bite of it & he goes down the memory lane wherein he always wanted to have this swet , but back that time he did’nt have that much money. Thsi makes him emotional & he confronted his friends saying that ‘ I WAS LOST’. TEARS came down his eyes as he said so. So his friends tries to help him out , but it seems he does’nt remeber anything except the fact he belongs from GANESHTALAY. Now INDIA being such a scattered country , not knowing the district or the state it was almost impossible ti find out the exact location ,since for several days he was on that train lonely before he reached CALCUTTA. Though , SAROO seemed to give up on his idea of finding his way back in front of his friends , but the day after making out with Lucy , he wakes up in the midnight only to find himself in front of the laptop & trying to find the location by using the new technology , ‘ GOOGLE EARTH’ back then. He calculated the train speeds & the distance within a circumradius formed on an idea of his vivid imagination , but it does’nt seem to work out, & this makes him a lot more restless . It seems like wherever he is , some voice is screaming out on his ears , trying to call him back & he could see halluicination his elder brother GUDDU all the time. For the worse his relationship with LUCY becomes bitter. FOR LUCY , he seems to have lost between his past & his present. She tells him to confront his present wherein he yells at her saying that, ‘ DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IT IS LIKE? HOW EVERYDAY MY REAL BROTHER SCREAMS MY NAME? CAN YOU IMAGINE THE PAIN THEY MUST BE NO KNOWING WHERE I AM ?. For the next several days , he seems to search his answers , trying out every possible way , but nothing happens. AFTER few monthe he meets LUCY again wherein she asks him , ‘ WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU FIND THEY ARE NOT THERE ? , to which he replies , ‘ I HAVE NO CHOICE’. He also comes to know from his father that his mother is not very well, so is possible if he could just meet her. He visits SUE , whose health is deteoriating, & learns that she is no infertile & that he had chosen to help others through adoption . for she feels ,by giving out a birth will not make anything better , rather than giving a life to someone suffering intensely may induce a difference. After hearing her , he mends his relationship with LUCY & MANTOSH & decides to give up his idea of searching any further , giving a last try. So , one evening while scanning GOOGLE EARTH, serendipitiousy , he happens to recollect the rock formations , his mother worked & gradually with every click he seems to move closer to his way back home , ultimately coming across the neighbourhood he lived in. HAVING , completed his serach he informs his adoptive mother all about his whereabouts & why he behaved estraned these all days , living in seperation from them. In turn she understands his pain & fully supports his efforts.

He goes back to INDIA , in search of his mother which is still a doubt for in this wide span of 25yrs , it may be she has moved somewhere, but to his fortune, his biological mother never left the village for she had deep faith that one day her son will find her way back home . He also comes to know that his elder brother is dead. Finally he is able to come back to where it all began. His adoptive & biological parents reconciled & shed tears on such a long journey back home.

In the end he comes to know that he actually mispelled his name ‘ SHERU ‘ for ‘ SAROO’ & this is a bit of irony because SHERU means LION, the animal who always finds its way back to its abode.

The film is based upon a true story by SAROO BRIERLY. It is a life story which shows the power of conviction & determination to reach one’s goal. It highlights the selflessness of a mother who projected the essence of motherhood which is not just restricted to being biological. IT also makes us learn that even if we try to leave our past behind , if something is left back , we have to go back to our past to mend back affairs. It is a philosophical journey which captures the idea behind imagination because he literally found his mother from SPACE. It’s a journey which shows how life is a full circle. It comes back to where it began. Above all its the power of humanity which holds the string of interpersonal relationships of life.

SOMETIMES STORIES ARE NOT JUST STORIES , THEY CONTAIN THE POWER TO TRANSFORM IMAGINATION IN TO REALITY & THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU CAN REFUTE BECAUSE IT IS A TRUE REALITY REALISED BY THE INDIVIDUAL. SO HAVE BELIEF IN WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

#HUMANITYINSPIRATIONCARELOVE

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wordsovervisuals · 6 years

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Imagine being 6 years old, all alone, on a train going 200 miles an hour to a place you do not know. Okay and now really imagine it... Hard isn’t it? Well, not if you’ve seen this carefully composed film by the Davis brothers. Lion (2016) is based on the true story of Saroo Brierly, who, as a young boy, got separated from his brother in India, and travelled hundreds of miles on a train to Calcutta. All alone in a strange city, he eventually got ‘rescued’ and was adopted by an Australian couple (played by Nicole Kidman and David Wenham).

It is a story of hope and a feeling of belonging which either makes you wanna gag or cry, depending on whether you’re a skeptic or a romantic. Regardless of either, there is a fine line between a feel-good (and forgettable) Hollywood-esque movie and a life-affirming piece of cinema. With Lion, Garth Davis was mindful to stay on one side of that line, the right side. With a team that included leading man Dev Patel, captivating newcomer Sunny Pawar and audaciously vulnerable Nicole Kidman, there was little that could go wrong, you would say. However, Saroo’s story is a beautiful but slightly common one and it is easy to over-romanticise it: all it needs is a soppy soundtrack and overly dramatic dialogue and you’re placed on a mental shelf between Me Before You and any John Green adaptation. With old friend and main cinematographer Greig Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty, Foxcatcher), Davis aimed to display Saroo’s life in all its brutal reality. Instead of giving people a few hours of escapism finalised in a priorly-expected happy ending, Lion forces an unprecedented sense of empathy upon the viewer.

This film features the wide shot in all its glory and features it often. Without it, we would miss the chaos of the Calcutta streets, the many passing faces of strangers and, most importantly, Saroo’s seemingly shrinking body. In its first five minutes, Lion introduces us to this kind-hearted and eager kid and subsequently throws him under a metaphorical bus as he's faced with the impossible task of finding his way back home. Fraser’s wide shots are carefully entangled with just-close-enough-close ups creating a calm rhythm and pacing to the film, not unlike Saroo’s exterior: thousand miles away from home and we are left to guess the depth of fear he is experiencing internally as he stoically makes his way through the strange and overwhelmingly large city.

The thoughtful cinematography is strengthened by the film’s subtle but game-changing sound design. Carefully considering its audience, Lion makes India, an unknown world to many, feel tangible, real, and, therewith, appropriately daunting at times. Combined with the collaboration between Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran, the soundtrack completes the work. If Lion was a body, each actor a bone, each frame an artery, then the sound would breathe life into it all like lungs, without which the whole film would not breathe emotion like it brilliantly accomplishes to do in less than two hours. Moreover, its last scene, a scene which everybody sees coming but no one is truly emotionally prepared for, is kept subtle and human and is a truly worthy ending to a moving and inspirational story, a story which most importantly, especially now, reminds us to never stop hoping for a way back home.

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royalsunshinehotel · 17 days

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caramelizing onions (Dev Patel, preference)

Five Days Until Monkey Man!!!!!

a/n: inspired by an ask from @binickandros from forever ago <3 backbone of the fanbase with their gifs 🫡thank you for your service.

Anwar Kharral (Skins 2009) I've got a headcanon that Anwar is a big soup enjoyer, specifically French Onion Soup, so I think Anwar could do alright caramelizing onions. As an adult, I think he can hold his own in the kitchen, but that's because he knows that the payoff is going to be worth it.

Sonny Kapoor (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2011) Sonny is blessed to be in the position where he can export the onion caramelizing to the hotel kitchens, where a professional can handle it. He has not been allowed in a kitchen since 2005, per his mother's orders. No, he will not tell you why.

Neal Sampat (Newsroom, 2011-2014) In my head, Neal comes from a family of restauranteurs. He's inherited the family skill, he's out of practice. His stove has been broken since he moved into this apartment. The odds are stacked against him, but still, he busts out a hot plate and gets to work, you're getting your onions.

Deon Wilson (Chappie, 2015) Deon has been eating hot pockets and adult portions of lunchables since he moved out of the house in 2015. He's barely familiar with vegetables, you're gonna have to teach him how to work the stove. Sorry girl, he's really cute tho.

Sheru "Saroo" Bierley (LION, 2016) Sue Brierly made sure both of her sons knew how to hold their own in a kitchen, and Saroo is not gonna forget that knowledge. If you've got a hankering for French onion soup, you better believe that he's gonna do everything he can to get ready for you.

Jay Menha (The Wedding Guest, 2018) Sanjay is tricky. The two of you travel so often for 'work', and it's kind of hard to not get takeout. However, once in a blue moon, Jay will make a nice meal for the two of you. He's romantic, he's sweet, and the two of you have a cozy night together. Yes, he did call his mother to make it happen. Yes, he's gonna do everything in his power to make sure you don't find that out.

David Copperfield (2019) I feel like David will need help the first few times he's in a kitchen. He's a man of means now, so he's able to pay his cook to give him lessons in the kitchen. This being said, I feel like David will want to cook for you, but tell you that the cook prepared it. You like it better when David cooks for you, even if you don't know it.

Joshua Madika (Modern Love, 2019) Joshua can and will buy you every single onion in the world. He doesn't mean to be so 'much', but you love him for it! This being said, he will give Carmelizing Onions one solid attempt, and depending how it goes, then he'll get you takeout from all your favorite spots in the city. It's a win-win to be honest.

Sir Gawain (The Green Knight, 2021) Oh, I'm sorry babe, he'd absolutely not be able to caramelize onions for you. I do, however, think, that he would be great at making smores. He is totally capable of putting a marshmallow on a stick and holding it over heat until it's golden brown. That is the extent of his food-gathering capabilities. God bless him for still being alive at age twenty-one.

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seekerman01 · 5 years

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Yaşanmış bir hikaye ve kitap çok meşhur. 2016 yılında filmi de çekilmiş. Saroo hakkında youtube üzerinden pek çok videoya da ulaşabilirsiniz. Onları da izlemenizi tavsiye ederim. Abisi ile başladığı tren yolculuğunda kaybolan ve evinden yaklaşık 1700 km uzağa Kolkata kentine giden 5 yaşındaki Saroo’nun gerçek hayat hikayesi. 5 yaşındaki bir çocuğun hayata tutunuşuna ve insanın her yaşta güçlü oluşuna şaşıracaksınız. Çıkarılacak çok ders var. Kurgu değil hepsi yaşanmış. Kötülerle karşılaştığı gibi iyilerle de karşılaşıyor insan. Saroo Avustralyalı Brierly ailesi tarafından evlat edinesine vesile olacak bir şans zincirinin içinde buluyor kendini. 5 yaşına kadar biriktirdiği anılarına tutunarak 25 yıl sonra Avustralya'dan kalkıp Hindistan'daki ailesine nasıl kavuştuğunu anlatıyor hikayesinde. Google map ve facebook grupları sayesinde ailesine annesi Fatma’ya tekrar kavuşuyor. Daha iyi bir mahallede oturma imkanı olmasına rağmen evladım beni daha rahat bulur umuduyla eski mahallesinden 25 yıl ayrılmayan Fatma anne en az Saroo kadar kahraman. Filmini de izledim. Filmde yer verilmeyen çok fazla detayı kitapta buluyorsunuz. İngilizce pratik olsun diye arkadaşımdan emanet aldığım kitabın dili çok sade. İngilizce okuma yapmaya başlamak isteyenler için de çok ideal. Kitabın ismi “Aslan”. Neden aslan olduğunu da kitabı okuyunca anlıyorsunuz. #okuduğunkitabıpaylaş #bilgiylekalın #Arasınkitaplığı #Allahkitabınızıversin #Saroo https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nMSDJlxKswpJHQ51bHicnxuDsPP0YzYmQx9w0/?igshid=88wduja43qhs

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stimsbian · 7 years

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24- book you got into because of the movie and the relative merits of eachMost recently I read A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly which the movie Lion was based off of! I watched the movie and loved it so much that I had to read the book. The book was really personal and inspiring, more so than the movie. The narrative was great and really enriches the story. The movie is great also but strays from the book some. However the actors in it are phenomenal especially the boy that plays young Saroo. Would definitely recommend both!

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the-girl-with-the-books · 7 years

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Still am not done with my reread but Way of Kings by Brandon sanderson is 5/5 ;) Also if im gonna be technical, i finished Lion by Saroo Brierly and that was a 4/5 but its an emotional and great read!

Ohhh is that the same Lion that inspired the film?? And I really need to read some Brandon Sanderson after your recommendations!

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 7 years

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LION (2016)

Starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, Sunny Pawar, Abhishek Bharate, David Wenham, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Pallavi Sharda and Eamon Farren.

Screenplay by Luke Davies.

Directed by Garth Davis.

Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13.

A few months ago, when I asked Oscar-nominated screenwriter Luke Davies what it was about the true-life story of Saroo Brierly which intrigued him enough to write the screenplay to Lion, his answer was concise.

“The simple answer is, it felt like an incredibly simple, but powerful, fairytale,” Davies explained. “It felt like a really ancient myth from the dawns of time, and yet it was so modern. It was like a modern myth, because it had this technological aspect. Basically, this story could never have happened before ten years ago. He could not have found home the way he did before Google Earth was released ten years ago.”

It is true. Lion as a film is an odd mixture of throwback and state-of-the-art, and it works surprisingly well on both levels. Based on the true-life story of an Indian boy who got irretrievably lost from his family at five years old and spends the next 25 years searching for his home, Lion is bittersweet, heartbreaking and eventually a tale of family, love and redemption. The fact that he had to move to another continent and eventually to happen upon his former neighborhood on Google Earth when he was a young man just makes the story all that much more intriguing and magic.

For the first hour or so, we follow Saroo as a young boy (played by Sunny Pawar at five). He lives with his mother, older brother and younger sister. He loves his mother and idolizes his brother. One night, when the older brother sneaks off in the night to make some money, Saroo tags along. They take a train to a local city where the brother goes looking for work. Saroo falls asleep while waiting for him, and when Saroo awakes the station is empty and his brother is nowhere in sight.

Saroo starts searching the station looking for his brother. He eventually falls asleep on a stopped train. When he awakens, the train is empty and moving further and further away from his home. Because no one is on the train, it never stops for Saroo to get off. Even if it did, he has no idea where he is. When it finally hits the end of the line in Calcutta, Saroo has been riding for days and is 1600 kms (about 1000 miles) from his home. No one has ever heard of his hometown (as a small child, he is mispronouncing the city’s name) or will help him find his home. He braves the streets of Calcutta, where he eventually is taking to an orphanage, where he is adopted by an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham).

Flash forward 20 years, Saroo has grown up (he is now played by Dev Patel), is in college, loves his parents and his girlfriend (Rooney Mara), but he is still obsessed with his home and original family. He has been trying for years to track them down, feeling anguished and guilty that his real mother, brother and sister don’t even know he is alive. He obsessively flicks through different areas on Google Earth, searching for a needle in a haystack – the small town in India where he grew up.

What really makes Lion fascinating, whether or not he ends up finding his home – and I’m sure you can take a good guess at whether it happens even if you weren’t previously familiar with the story – is the journey. The sense of loss and the desperate need to make things right again pervade the film.

To be completely honest, the scenes of Saroo at five are more dramatic than the ones of him as a young man. However, in the end the story comes together in such a sweet and poignant manner that you’d have to be pretty hard-hearted indeed for Lion not to move you.

Jay S. Jacobs

#Lion #2017 #Movie Reviews #Dev Patel #Jay S. Jacobs

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marisseaubrey · 6 years

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LION

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In the land of Khandwa, India, there was a five-year old boy standing on top of a hill playing with butterflies and his name was Saroo. Saroo and Guddu, his elder brother, went out to steal coal from trains and sell it in to the village. They used the money to buy milk for their family.

At the moment, their mom asks where they get it but they didn’t answer. The next day, Kamla, the mother of Saroo, have to leave their to collect rock which her job.

On the other hand, Guddu was about to leave too, but Saroo want to go along with his brothers. Guddu says that Saroo have to stay with Shekila, their youngest sister. At first Guddu didn’t agree that Saroo can go along with him, but in the end he agreed. They arrived at a nearby train station and Saroo takes a nap. When they’ve reached the other train station, Guddu tries to wake him up but his too tired. That’s why Guddu leave Saroo at the train station. Saroo waited Guddu for hours and he never return. Saroo searches for his brother in to the train and fell asleep in to one of the compartments. As he woke up, he found out that the train is moving.

After several days, the train finally arrived Calcutta. Saroo was definitely missing. He didn’t even understand Bengali, Calcutta’s language. He tried to reach out for a ticket but no one understands him also because no one knows where ‘Ginestalay’ is and he was a child. In several days, he spends the nights roaming around the city until he met Noor, a friendly woman. Noor take him a bath and feed him. She tells Saroo that there’s a man named Rama will help him to get back home. Saroo felt like there’s something wrong with the two people so he runaway. He spent his two months, living under Howrah Bridge.

One day, a young man saw him and taken to the police. The police cannot trace his family that’s why they put him into orphanage.

Until, there was an Australian couple wants to adopt him. The couple is so kind and taught Saroo many things. Saroo are comfortable with the couple. A year later, the couple adopted a child again named Mamosh. Saroo grown up, he starts moving to Melbourne for his study and met Lucy, an American student. Saroo confess to his friends that he was adopted and he didn’t know where he’ll find his family. His friends suggested that he can use Google Search. Lucy and Saroo became a couple. Saroo begins his search because he thinks about what must his family gone through when he was missing. Saroo visits Sue, his foster parent who has an illness. Sue was infertile, so her and his husband, John to help others especially kids through adoption. Saroo has been spending a long time for his search until one day, he notice the rock formations, where his mother collect rocks, and found out that its “Ganesh Talai” not “Ginestalay”. He’s so happy and tells it to his foster mother. Sue Brierly fully supports Saroo for this.

With the help of a local English Speaker in his hometown, he was able to saw and have an emotional and overwhelming reunion with his family. It saddened him when he finds out that Guddu died. Kalma tells Saroo that he never lose hope in finding him and never move away from there. Saroo and his family reunited. Smiles and tears of joy are the only you’ll see in the ending.

Lost and Found

The movie was heartbreaking at first because at a very young age Saroo was separated to his family. The plot was stunning and it will make you think of how things happened. The characters played their role majestically. The movie shows that everyone can be a family. The movie is inspirational and worth the brain cells used.

A. The movie taught us that no races, no culture and no nationality can define what family is. Family starts with love and care. The movie shows where ever you are you can find a family. At a very young age, Saroo gone through a lot of experiences in life and encountered different types of people. Finally, an Australian family adopted him and he felt like home. Just like in a normal life, family is the one who helps you through thick and thin. They are the one who raised and clothed you on being what you are right now. But, never forget where you came from even though you are too high now.

b. “Do you have any idea what its like? How everyday my mother screams my name?” –Saroo. As I’ve heard this line, I was literally crying in front of my laptop. It touches my heart. This is the time when Saroo was searching for the place where his family can be found. The line was too emotional and too deep. No mother will ever give up not until she found her children. For a mother like Kamla, it was too heartbreaking for her to lose a child of her own, knowing the fact that she was illiterate. It took how many years until she met her beloved Saroo. On the other hand, Saroo realized that his mother might be suffering in finding him. It was very emotional for me because I know what it feels like being separated to his parents.

c. From the movie, Sue Brierly is my favorite character. It is because she was kind enough to adapt and help orphans like Saroo just to give them a nice and happy family. Even though she was infertile, she chose to help and adapt kids. Sue and her husband raised and clothed Saroo and the other child giving them their needs, love and care. She was genuinely loves to help children. In the time that Saroo was searching for her biological mother, Sue truly supports Saroo because it is the right thing. She was so selfless. Mother’s love was the selfless love that we can experience.

d. Being separated from parents is never easy. At a very young age, I was separated from my mother and father. The only difference between me and Saroo was I stayed at my Aunt’s house and Saroo became a street child. Mom have to leave the country for us to be able to continue my study and have a better future so with papa. It felt like you are in a nest that has baby birds in it and you’re the only beetle on it. It hurts so bad to be separated from them. You missed them, the love, care and comfort. the feeling of taking care by your own parents can never explain by a 20 pages book. The feeling is different from the others.

e. I would like to ask Saroo “How many days or months did he spent to find his own family?"

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ktienh · 3 years

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#lockdownbingo 4 of 8 Prompt 4: book to screen Lion by Saroo Brierly 🫖🫖🫖🫖 Yep, he mentioned chai tea and that's it, I NEED some except that it appears in all out of cloves 😭 What a fantastic story through; his resilience and survival instinct as a lost child in India, his persistence when looking for his birth mother, and his lovely supportive adopted family. I'm also totes amazed by how much he remembers from when he was a 5yo! Though if it was that traumatic, I'd probably remember lots of details too 😌 I had to laugh at just how good publicity this is for Google Earth 😅 I also jumped on Netflix to watch this adaptation because who can resist Dev Patel 😍🤣 🔒 Approaching end of 2nd month in lockdown and today, we breached the thousandth mark 😒 I'm beating lockdown blues by read read read! Bingo deets on my story highlights if you'd like to join in 🤗 🎞 #lion #saroobrierly #aussieauthor #truestory #memoir #booktoscreen #ausbookstagram #ausbookishfeatures https://www.instagram.com/p/CTBuS0MLELE/?utm_medium=tumblr

#lockdownbingo #lion #saroobrierly #aussieauthor #truestory #memoir #booktoscreen #ausbookstagram #ausbookishfeatures

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