Cried my eyes out
So emotional.. the performances are amazing!!!
shareAgreed. The performances are to die for.
shareStealing the words from someone at my theater, LION is not a movie, is an experience!!
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I cried and got teary eyed also, at several points in the movie, and I began to wonder if the film makers weren't being manipulative. Any time I cry more than twice during a movie, I suspect there is some manipulation going on.
shareMy entire theater was weeping unashamedly. I'm talking grown men sobbing.
shareYeah, the ending is particularly touching. Especially from the point where we learn Guddu is dead.
But what really did it for me was the real footage at the end.
People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefsī²
But what really did it for me was the real footage at the end.
I did a decent job keeping it together until Saroo found his birth mother and sister again. And when he called his adoptive parents to tell them about it. That's when I got a tear in my eye.
But I straight up cried when I saw the real footage. Nothing prepared me for that. But it was the perfect way to end this film. The woman whose son disappeared meeting the woman who raised him and allowed him the chance to find her again. You can't recreate a meeting like that with actors. The realness of all that emotion just hit me really hard emotionally.
I agree. I had been composed until then, but I defy anyone to watch the scenes of that meeting dry-eyed. Excellent film. I thought Dev Patel did a superb job, and Sunny Pawar was absolutely breathtaking.
shareI must say I also shed a tear when he found his mom.
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