For the 2 people that may ever read my posts routinely, TRUE STORY and DRAMA is my spot I love to live in with movies. Even more, if it can be highly emotional and make me cry ( so what ) that is the secret sauce to a one way ticket to a 9+. It is why I have Adu and Moonlight so high and Lion is in the same exact class and category.
This film is wildly gut wrenching. A 5 year old boy in India literally accidentally gets on a train and takes him days away, as he was waiting for his brother, all the way across India, away from his family. He gets off in a foreign place that speaks a different language hundreds of miles from his home. BUT HE IS 5. He has no idea what the name of his village is called, he can’t speak the language or explain anything to anyone. He eventually, after some harrowing months alone on the streets gets adopted by a beautiful family in Australia.
25 years later as an adult he can no longer go on, and NEEDS to find his mom and brother and sister. He NEEDS to make sure his mom and family know he is alive and he is ok. So he embarks on an adventure to figure out where he is from which proves to be basically like finding a needle in a haystack. SPOILER ALERT HE DOES. And this is the story of the whole thing. Which I remind you. IS TRUE!!!!!
This is an absolute OUTSTANDING MASTERPIECE, tear jerking, gut punching, beautifully put together film with a wonderful ending. Little known movie but one of the best of the last decade and one of the best I have ever seen. That is a review.