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So in case you’re not much of a reader I can warmly recommend to watch the movie instead (see the trailer below). Even the movie captures this story in a beautiful way. In the book Saroo really tells us all about the dangers, insecurities, the happiness and sadness he had to deal with all his life. She said she was “surprised with thunder” that her boy had come back,Īnd that the happiness in her heart was “as deep as the sea”.”Īlthough I’m afraid I might have given away a bit too much, the book tells so much more than just the facts of this incredible adventure. “My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: He just has to let his mother, his brothers and little sister know that he misses them, and that he is doing fine.Īs soon as he finds out about Google Earth, with its endless possibilities to travel all over our planet and discover all kinds of places, Saroo just keeps on searching all across his immense home country, until he finally finds back what he’s been looking for all those years.

All those years, he’s determined to find them back some day. After several failed attempts to find back the boy’s family, Saroj asks him whether it’s okay if she gives him up for adoption and only a few weeks later Saroo can start a new life, in a new home, with a new family, in a new country on the other side of the world.Īlthough Saroo’s grateful for all the opportunities that his new life has given him, he can never forget about his Indian family. Lost in a city he doesn’t know, lost in a language he doesn’t speak, lost from his family, everyone and everything he’s ever known.Īgainst all odds the boy manages to survive the dangers of the city and after a few weeks he finds shelter under de wings of Saroj Sood, a woman who works for ISSA. Owning nothing but the clothes he’s wearing, not knowing where he came from or even his family’s name, the little boy is lost. By accident the 5 year old boy ends up on a train that takes him to Kolkata, a city of millions on the other side of India. It’s 1986 when Saroo’s life takes a dramatic turn. Such an incredible story, a story that just has to be told! That’s when I knew I had to get to know this story too, and after reading the book, I had to see the movie. She said that the story, while telling me, gave her goosebumps all over again. A while ago when I was having a look at the cover of this book, the girl from the bookshop started telling me all about Saroo and his remarkable story.

I think nothing beats a well meant and warm recommendation. Written by Saroo Brierley, published by Boekerij The daughter's feeling are not looked at in depth, but the focus on the parents makes the message come across.Lion – A long way home Book : Lion – A long way home The movie on a whole is slow and shallow and the 'technique' of filming the mother's therapy sessions as interviews makes it look fake. She comes to understand her circumstances as she cries out to her own mother when she realizes she has 'forgotten' her own abuse. Meridith Baxter Birney plays the mother who can't believe she didn't know the man she loved dearly was abusing their daughter. Yet he has to learn to live with himself, as he fights his own demons. Every gesture he makes towards his daughter is misinterpreted. Robert Urich plays him as a wounded man who knows he did a terrible thing, but doesn't know what he can do to make it right again. It's a daring movie especially because the abuser is not hidden away as he is in so many other movies we've seen about the subject. The story follows the mother's therapy sessions and through this we find out that dad was an abused child and later on in the film that this was also the case with the mother. It takes a look at a family (mom, dad, teenage daughter and younger son) going through a crisis as the daughter accuses her father of sexually abusing her. This movie examines the fact that people who were abused by their parents are much more likely to abuse their own children.

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