Just a little summary: Lion is a 2016 film based on Saroo

Brierley's autobiographical novel, A Long Way Home. The film tells the
story of a 30-year-old man who was adopted at the age of five in India
and now lives in Australia, who travels back to India in an attempt to
discover his true identity and reconnect with his long-lost family. The
film is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, who consulted on the
film. It is director Garth Davis's debut feature-length film.

Emotions: “Lion” sneaks up on you as it proceeds to pluck your heart

strings with its little cat feet. Then, before you know it, tear ducts will be
brimming and your entire being will be awash with incredible joy but
also a splash of bittersweet sorrow. At least that is what happened to me
during the course of this incredible true story about a five-year-old
Indian boy named Saroo, whose life is changed in 1986 after being
separated from his idolized older brother, ending up more than a
thousand miles from his home and family.

Awards: It is not surprising that "Lion" has collected a lot of audience

awards. Director Gareth Davies and screenwriter Luke Davies restrain
any sentimental overload until the very end - this is exactly what the
audience needs and the film deserves.

The process of making the film:

Filming took place in 2015, first in Calcutta, and then in Melbourne,
Australia, and Tasmania. Davis first got involved with the project after
reading an article about Saroo Brierley's experience. In an interview
with Deadline, Davis said, "Because it’s a true story, I felt that I had to
get as much real-life exposure as possible. The first thing I did, and this
is even before we had a writer, I went to India by myself. Actually, at
the time, I tied in with 60 Minutes, who were going over. They took the
adopted mother to meet the birth mother. I was actually in the village
during that moment, which is extraordinary because I got to meet
everybody in a very deep emotional space, so that was really interesting,
and I learned a lot from that. The way I work is I like to immerse myself
in the world of the film and in the character’s lives, and then from that, I
get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told. I
suppose the thing that I absorbed was the way village people unite—this
sense of togetherness and family and culture was very strong. The
landscape was very strong. The textures and the colors, I thought, was a
very big part of home for Saroo. I really absorbed that, and just watching
the kids of today playing in the dam as Saroo did, I got a lot from that."

Character List
Saroo Brierley
Saroo is the protagonist of the story. He vanishes from his village after
getting separated from his brother at a train station. Living by his wits,
Saroo is able to stay out of harm's way, and eventually gets adopted and
moves to Tasmania, where he assimilates himself into Australian
culture. Once he starts to look for his village on Google Earth, Saroo
suffers from an identity crisis, pained by the trauma of having been
separated from his family and not knowing about his origins.
By the end of the film, Saroo is able to unify both sides of his heritage
when he goes to India and is reunited with his birth mother and learn
about his brother. Saroo is an exceedingly brave, optimistic, ingenious,
and lucky young man, suffering a great deal, but finding happiness in his
life eventually.
Since childhood, Saroo has been very responsible, intelligent,
hardworking. He takes responsibility for providing for his family from
an early age. In an Australian family, he takes care of his brother with
mental problems. He is the pride of his parents. He is responsible for his
education and career.

Sue Brierley
Sue is Saroo's adoptive mother, a woman from Tasmania with dreams of
being a mother to a non-white child. While Saroo assumes that Sue
adopted because she was unable to have children, it turns out that Sue
could have had children of her own, but chose not to because she
believed that her job was to help those who needed her.

Sue is wholeheartedly supportive of Saroo's search for his biological

mother and encourages his journey. She is never anything but supportive
of her son and wants only for him to be happy. She is a pure-hearted and
loving woman, who also suffers from great stress caused by her other
adoptive son, Mantosh.
But despite his antics, she does not give up on him and is always on his
side and is glad to see him at home.
Initially, when I saw her and her husband, I was afraid that they could
also harm Saroo. I was very glad to realize that She and her husband
turned out to be really decent people with a broad heart.

John Brierley
John is Saroo's adoptive father and is very loving towards his son. He is
portrayed as supportive, kind, and thoughtful.
According to the situations shown in the film, I have an image of John
as an ideal father and husband. He spends time with his family, he is
proactive and tries to give his children the best of life, he loves sports
and an active lifestyle and brings it to his family, thereby uniting
everyone together. It's a pity that he was powerless with Milos due to his
mental characteristics.

Guddu Khan
Saroo's biological brother is older than he is, and the two get along
extremely well. When he takes Saroo to the train station with him on the
day Saroo goes missing, he does not return to his brother, because he has
been hit by a train. He is extremely important to Saroo and to Saroo's
memory of his childhood. Even after he has died, Guddu exists as
somewhat of a guiding light for his brother.

Mantosh Brierley
After the Brierleys adopt Saroo, they adopt another little boy, Mantosh.
Mantosh does not find it as easy to adjust to his new life, and suffers
from some post-traumatic anxiety attacks and bouts of violence. He
grows up to be unambitious, depressive, and financially dependent. He
also resents Saroo for being so well-adjusted and successful, which
strains their relationship.

Lucy
Lucy is Saroo's American girlfriend at college in Melbourne. She is very
supportive and loving towards him, but the couple hits some difficulties
when Saroo begins to become obsessed with figuring out his origin
story.
Even during a difficult period in their relationship, Lucy did not leave
her partner. she tried to do everything to talk to him, but Saroo closed
himself off from her and did not want to talk heart to heart, which led to
an even greater distance. We don't see their relationship after Salo's
return to Australia, but I sincerely believe that everything got better for
them and they continued to live happily.

The most impressive moments for me:

1. Emotional triggers can occur at several points during this decades-
lasting story of longing and loss, which is also a mystery of the unknown
past. For me, the killer moment was the moment when an adult Saru
finally and somewhat guiltily confesses to his Australian adoptive
mother Sue that he spent countless days doing research, searching for his
birth family through Google Earth.
Эмоциональные триггеры могут возникать в нескольких точках в
течение этой десятилетней истории тоски и потери, которая также
является тайной неизвестного прошлого. Для меня убийственным
моментом был момент, когда взрослый Сару наконец-то и
несколько виновато признается своей австралийской приемной
матери Сью, что он провел бесчисленное количество дней, проводя
исследования в поисках своей родной семьи через Google Планета
Земля.
The reason for his secrecy? He did not want to hurt the two incredibly
generous and supportive people who rescued him from a Dickensian
existence filled with poverty, hunger and potential abuse after being
taken to a big-city facility for homeless street children.

Questions:

1. 1
 What does the image of Saroo surrounded by butterflies
represent?
The very first shot of the film is of Saroo standing in a field
surrounded by yellow butterflies. Later, this memory of the
butterflies helps Saroo to piece back together his childhood and his
origins. The butterflies represent the beauty of the natural world and
of life in India, but also can be read as a symbol of transformation-
as-identity. They symbolize the ways that Saroo is able to bridge the
gap between his adoptive identity and his origin story.
2. 2
What allows Saroo to survive?
For a five-year-old, Saroo has remarkably savvy instincts and
intuitions about safety and danger in the film. He manages to
survive days without food on the train, fend for himself on the
dangerous streets of Calcutta, and escape imprisonment by the
seemingly nice but deceptive Noor. We see that Saroo is
remarkably ingenious and able to suss out harm and danger when
other children might not. It is this bravery and instinct that aligns
with the meaning of his name, "lion."
3. 3
What triggers Saroo to remember his childhood and begin
wanting to know more?
At a party in college in Melbourne, Saroo sees a plate of jalebis, an
Indian dessert, on the counter. This immediately reminds him of his
brother and his childhood in India. After seeing this dessert, he goes
back to the party and tells his classmates that he is lost and that he is
not Australian. This sets his quest to find himself and his home
village into motion.
4. 4
Give your feedback on the scene when Saroo talks with his
Australian mum. What did you fill while wathing it? What does
Sue tell Saroo that surprises him?
At one point, discouraged by his identity crisis and the hardships his
adoptive brother Mantosh is causing, Saroo tells Sue that he is sorry
that adopting children has made her life harder. It is then that she
informs him that she could have had children of her own, but chose
not to because she wanted to adopt. This completely changes
Saroo's perception of her, as he realizes that her drive to adopt was
not out of necessity, but an authentic desire to raise Indian children.
This brings them even closer to one another.
 В какой-то момент, обескураженный своим эмоциональным
кризисом и проблемами, которые вызывает его приемный брат
Мантош, Саро говорит Сью, что ему жаль, что усыновление
детей усложнило ее жизнь. Именно тогда она сообщает ему,
что могла бы иметь собственных детей, но решила этого не
делать, потому что хотела усыновить. Это полностью меняет
восприятие Сару о ней, поскольку он понимает, что ее
стремление усыновить было вызвано не необходимостью, а
подлинным желанием воспитывать индийских детей. Это еще
больше сближает их друг с другом.
5. 5
What does Saroo note/realize in the orphanage?
While he is living at the orphanage, he sees that people who are
older or have power are not always good people. There is a boy at
the orphanage who struggles with attention and often hits his head,
and the men who run the orphanage punish the boy. It is in this
moment that Saroo realizes that not all places that purport to help
people actually do so, and that many people who have authority
over others abuse that authority.