Not knowing what she had planned for him, a random individual shows up and saroo is told by the young woman that he’s going to help him find his home back. Not knowing what this stranger is capable of, saroo put his trust into her because she gave him a nice warm bath, food and other needed essentials. Another example from the film is, a young lady finds him on the street and takes him home.
This shows how saroo was out in the night without no parental supervision and could have had came across even worse situations, and he has nobody’s help but his own. Later that night a handful of children were abducted by older men, as saroo got up he ran as fast as he could hoping he could get away from them.
An example is after saroo gets lost and is trying countless times to find a place to sleep, he comes across a group of children sleeping on cardboards where and has the opportunity to get a friend and a cardboard from them to sleep on.
A long way home movie movie#
One being is his self care, it’s shown in the movie how he goes out with his brother to get food and the risk of getting lost or even kidnapped is very high. In the movie its shown how saroo has been given a very large amount of responsibilities to him considering his age. By picking up rocks every single day, that was the only source of income without it there would be no home or food on the table when there already is rarely any food and no functioning house. His whole childhood was stripped away as he was given adult responsibilities which were going out and helping his mother and older brother with work. Saroo had experienced early adulthood at the age of 5, experiencing such scenarios changes the way a child functions. Things like these had made him feel very confused and detached as both the cultures of each country were on two very different ends of the spectrum.
When he would come across cultural food, it would bring him back memories of the times he was in india with his family. The memory was him and his brother Guddu at the shop and Saroo at that time had caught the attention of a jalebi and asked his brother to buy one. An example is when Saroo was art friendly gathering, he saw a bowl of jalebis which triggered a past memory of him in india. As he had moved from two completely different countries, india had a very traditional culture whereas australia does not emphasis traditional culture as much which created a huge disconnect between saroo determining his true cultural identity. Beautiful buildings and lovely landscape shots of the Australian countryside are compared to the rugged and broken plains of India that Saroo travelled across. Torn between two families in two different countries, landscape becomes a defining motif in Saroo’s struggle to understand who he really is. Aware that Saroo’s life would be very different if he hadn’t been adopted, his memories won’t let you forget that it was simply an unthinkable event that cruelly drew them apart. Saroo’s relationship with his brother becomes increasingly strained because of not knowing what became of Guddu. The film sheds light on the issues around adoption and the motivations of parents who adopt children from different countries and cultures to their own. This essay will talk about the hardships Saroo went through as a child and a young adult which prevented him from moving on from the past, issues such as mental health, young adulthood, and cultural conflict. Separated from his family for more than twenty five years, the boy eventually attempts to find his way back home to his birth mother. In the film Lion, it is an unimaginable true story brought to life, and is an affecting yet nevertheless life-affirming human drama about a young Indian boy who finds himself thousands of miles from home.
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