As a Chinese audience, this family-hunting movie made by an Australian director gave me a different feeling.
I was attracted at the beginning of the film: after a few dog barks, the low-pitched music slowly sounded, and the wide-angle wide-angle lens slowly swept across the village where the smoke was lightly swept, the forest where the mist gradually dissipated, and the blue sky separated by a long road. The color coastline, the waves, mountains, railways, and trees that were slowly approached from the perspective of Google Maps, I slowly saw this little person, this child among the flying butterflies, at that moment, I suddenly felt, How insignificant man is in the whole of nature.
Then the whole first half, I was watching his one-man show. Look at him and his mother, brother and sister, living a hard, poor, warm and happy life. Watch him help his brother steal coal for milk, watch him help his mother take care of his sister, watch him accompany his brother to work, watch him get separated from his brother and get on a train that is farther and farther away from home. Watch him search helplessly in a crowded train station, watch him escape from the clutches of human traffickers quickly, watch him steal sacrifices from sacrifices, watch him wisely escape the control of adults with bad intentions, watch him keep missing his mother's gentle smile and A warm embrace, watching him in ragged clothes rummaging for spoons in the rubbish heap, watching him imitate the diners' eating behavior outside the restaurant (if I were that diner, I would also be moved by his cuteness), watching him being taken to the police by kind people The bureau sought help, watched him go to a shelter, and saw him adopted by adoptive parents in Australia. Looking at the long eyelashes of his bright eyes, the joy, sadness, helplessness, and confusion naturally revealed, my heart instantly turned into a puddle of water.
Salo, who grew up under the care of his adoptive parents, is elegant and well-educated. He is engaged in hotel management and has a bright future. He gets along well with his adoptive parents and younger brother. However, one day all of this suddenly changed. Saro thought of his mother and brother in his hometown because of the candy ears he saw at a friend's house, but he was tormented and painful because he couldn't remember the way home. If it is not the young man who grew up in the warm sunshine of Australia, he cannot fall in love with his girlfriend, he cannot tolerate his younger brother's flaws, and he cannot communicate openly and honestly with his adoptive parents. Not knowing where he came from and finding his way home, he could no longer lead a peaceful and normal life. He changed from a sunny and refined youth to a haggard and sensitive wandering soul day by day. Fortunately, fortunately, he finally found his way home from Google Maps. I saw my mother who was thinking about it day and night, but I didn't know that my beloved brother was killed by a train on the night he went missing. The ending was sad. It was only later that Salo learned that he had been mispronouncing his name, and his name was actually Lion.
The second half of the movie was actually quite unexpected. The director didn't focus on the conflict between the adoptive parents and the biological mother, and did not deliberately exaggerate the entanglement and ethical complex of leaving the adoptive parents to find the biological mother. One conversation understated the reasons why the adoptive parents adopted him and his younger brother: "I can have children, we choose not to, adopting both of you is what we want, we want you two to be in our lives, this is Our choice, which is why I fell in love with your father, we all believe that there are enough people in the world, and having one more does not guarantee a better world, but adopting a child like you will give you the opportunity to integrate into the world. opportunity, more meaningful." Giving love unconditionally without asking for anything in return, so that the person who receives the love has no burden or guilt. This is the love we want.
Although the story is ordinary, the scenes are beautiful and textured, the soundtrack is soothing, the reverberation is lingering, and the main and supporting characters all perform brilliantly. Sonny Pavo (playing Childhood Salo) performs real, natural and agile, Dev Patel ( Playing adult Salo) is tall and handsome, elegant and stable, and the shape of the beard is full of flavor and makes people want to stop.
The ending song of "Lion" has been on the single loop these days: Never Give Up
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