Lion: a way home - un camino a casa || Review and opinion
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Having a missing family member is the worst uncertainty that a person can live and more painful is, when it is a child, I think all mothers have that fear when their children are young that they can be lost, this event is always seen from the point of view of adults now well the missing children how they feel, what they do, where they go, how they ask for help. Lion is a biographical film about Australian Saroo Brierley and is based on his non-fictional book A Long Way Home, published in 2013, which tells the story of his life especially in the time where he lost his way home, the film was released in 2016 and I saw it a few days ago.
Saroo was just 5 years old and still did not speak well, he lived in India in extreme poverty with his mom, his older brother and an almost baby sister, to subsist his mother worked carrying stones and Saroo helped her in the day. They were very poor, but they treated each other well, they all loved each other, the mother was loving and attentive to her children.
One day while his mother went to work at night, this scene suggests that she was also a prostitute, but it is not clear, she decided to leave the children alone to take care of each other and it was the moment when the eldest son went out without telling his mother to look for anything he could sell, objects that he found in the terminals, trains and night places, This boy was about 12 years old and was very close to his brother Saroo, well that day Saroo begged for a ride and convinced his older brother that he would help him, they left together, but after a while Saroo was overcome by sleep and fell asleep in his brother's arms so he decided to leave him on a bench at a train station to go alone to check the area, but not before waking him up and asking him to wait for him there.
! [Spanish Version]
Tener un familiar desaparecido es la peor de las incertidumbres que una persona puede vivir y m谩s doloroso es, cuando se trata de un hijo, creo que todas las madres tienen ese temor cuando sus hijos est谩n peque帽os que se puedan perder, este acontecimiento siempre se ve desde el punto de vista de los adultos ahora bien los ni帽os perdidos como se sienten, que hacen, a d贸nde acuden, c贸mo piden ayuda. Lion es una pel铆cula biogr谩fica sobre el australiano Saroo Brierley y est谩 basado en su libro no ficcional A Long Way Home, publicado en 2013, que narra la historia de su vida especialmente en el tiempo donde perdi贸 el camino a casa, la pel铆cula fue publicada en el 2016 y yo la vi hace unos d铆as.Saroo ten铆a apenas 5 a帽os y a煤n no hablaba bien, viv铆a en la India en pobreza extrema con su mam谩, su hermano mayor y una hermana casi beb茅, para subsistir su madre trabajaba cargando piedras y Saroo le colaboraba en la jornada. Eran muy pobres, pero se trataban bien, todos se quer铆an, la mam谩 era amorosa y atenta con sus hijos.
Un d铆a mientras su madre va a trabajar de noche, esta escena da a entender que tambi茅n se prostitu铆a, pero no queda clara, decide dejar a los ni帽os solos cuid谩ndose unos a otros y era el momento donde el hijo mayor sali贸 sin decirle nada a su mam谩 a buscar cualquier cosa que pudiera vender, objetos que se encontraba en los terminales, trenes y lugares nocturnos, este ni帽o ten铆a como 12 a帽os y era muy unido a su hermano Saroo, bueno ese d铆a Saroo rog贸 para que lo llevara y convenci贸 a su hermano mayor en que lo iba a ayudar, se fueron juntos, pero al rato a Saroo lo venci贸 el sue帽o y se qued贸 dormido en los brazos de su hermano a lo que este decidi贸 dejarlo en un banco de una estaci贸n de tren para irse solo a revisar el 谩rea, no si antes despertarlo y pedirle que lo esperara all铆.
After a few hours, in the darkness of the night Saroo woke up disoriented and scared, he started to call his brother, but there was no one there and he got on an empty train, he fell asleep again and when he woke up the train had started and he was far from home and with no one to help him. After this scene the whole movie focused on Saroo and the difficulties he had to overcome and circumvent, he spent two days traveling without the train stopping and when it stopped the boy was in Calcutta, a city with millions of people and by the way they spoke a different language than the boy.
Saroo, wandered the streets for several months, went hungry, dangerous, even deceived with the intention of kidnapping, before the authorities realized that he was a lost child, but the system is chaotic and a child who does not speak well, who does not pronounce well where he lives is almost impossible to help him.
During the film I had many mixed emotions, I felt that there was a lot of suspense, drama is the main genre, but you can feel it more intensely after the third part, when he is already an adult and is obsessed with returning home, and here technology plays an important role in his search. It is a film to reflect and thank God for the care and protection and above all to recognize that it is very significant to sow in the first memories of children love, beautiful experiences even if there are economic limitations, this film has a happy and bitter ending, I recommend it, you will be surprised by many things if you decide to see it and if you already saw it tell me what you thought.
! [Spanish Version]
Pasadas las horas, en la oscuridad de la noche se despert贸 Saroo desorientado y se asust贸, comenz贸 a llamar a su hermano, pero no hab铆a nadie y se mont贸 en un tren que estaba vac铆o, se volvi贸 a quedar dormido y cuando despert贸 el tren hab铆a arrancado y 茅l estaba lejos de casa y sin nadie que lo ayudar谩. Despu茅s de esta escena toda la pel铆cula se enfoc贸 en Saroo y las dificultades que tuvo que superar y sortear, pas贸 dos d铆as viajando sin que el tren se detuviera y cuando se par贸 el ni帽o estaba en Calcuta, una ciudad con millones de personas y de paso hablaban un idioma diferente al del ni帽o.Saroo, deambul贸 por las calles varios meses, pas贸 hambre, peligros, incluso enga帽os con la intenci贸n de secuestro, antes de que las autoridades se dieran cuenta de que era un ni帽o perdido, pero el sistema es ca贸tico y un ni帽o que no habla bien, que no pronunciar bien d贸nde vive es casi imposible ayudarlo.
Durante la pel铆cula tuve muchas emociones encontradas, me pareci贸 que hab铆a mucho suspenso, el drama es el principal g茅nero, pero se puede sentir con mayor intensidad despu茅s de la tercera parte, cuando ya es un adulto y se obsesiona con volver a casa, y aqu铆 la tecnolog铆a juega un papel importante en su b煤squeda. Es una pel铆cula para reflexionar y agradecer a Dios por el cuidado y la protecci贸n y sobre todo reconocer que es muy significativo sembrar en los primeros recuerdos de los ni帽os amor, bonitas experiencias aunque existan limitaciones econ贸micas, esta pel铆cula tiene un final feliz y amargo, la recomiendo, te sorprender谩 muchas cosas si decides verla y si ya la viste cu茅ntame qu茅 te pareci贸.
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