#Lion a long way home sparknotes movie#

A year later, he is adopted by a loving Australian couple, Sue and John, who take him in and shower him with all the love in the world. Yet, the brave child Saroo is, he escapes the predatory hands of these beings. Human traffickers and child predators roam the same streets and almost capture Saroo at every turn of the road. Saroo’s perspective is explored throughout his survival on the streets of Kolkata that do not care for a homeless and poor child. Saroo arrives in Kolkata, the bustling city filled with unknown people who speak an indecipherable language (Saroo speaks Hindi, whereas people speak Bengali in Kolkata). The camerawork by the talented Greig Fraser smartly pans the camera to show the vastness of the world and the smallness of a lost child. “Guddu!!” These visceral screams are cut off by a shot of the outside, the turmoil of a lost child is contrasted with the serene landscape and a moving train. Saroo’s dawning realization that he is alone and trapped is accompanied by desperate shouts for his brother who is not to come. One day, Saroo in his ecstasy of joining his brother in one of his ventures, falls asleep at a train station and on finding his brother absent, he steps onto a train but that train happens to be decommissioned and Saroo is trapped in the moving train, bound for an unknown destination.

His brother, Guddu, jumps on and off trains, gets coal pieces and produces miracle foods, such as milk and jalebis. Saroo idolizes his brother, who is like a cool superhero in the wonderous eyes of a small child.

#Lion a long way home sparknotes movie#

The movie spans 25 years of a boy named Saroo Brierley who lives in extreme poverty while helping his mother carry rocks while helping his brother steal coal pieces from moving trains.