{"id":11677,"date":"2017-01-10T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11677"},"modified":"2017-01-06T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:05:09","slug":"lion-2016-garth-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11677","title":{"rendered":"Lion (2016, Garth Davis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This had weird similarities with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11676\">Mountains May Depart<\/a><\/em>, which we watched the night before.  It spans about the same amount of time, during which a boy is separated from his mother, moves to Australia and forgets her native language.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s the true story of &#8220;Saroo&#8221; who gets lost while adventuring with his big brother then accidentally rides a train to Calcutta where he doesn&#8217;t speak the language and almost gets captured by a creepy man then ends up in an orphanage from where he&#8217;s adopted by Nicole Kidman and the corrupt police chief from <em>Top of the Lake<\/em>.  Years later he is Dev Patel of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1336\">Slumdog<\/a><\/em>, going to college and dating Rooney Mara when he learns about online satellite-map programs and becomes obsessed with finding his home town, which he&#8217;s been mispronouncing all his life, and seeing his real family again.<\/p>\n<p>Besides obviously getting choked up by the climactic family reunion (and the inevitable footage of the real people being dramatized) I got much of the same feeling as Garth&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11442\">Top of the Lake<\/a><\/em> &#8211; it&#8217;s a good-looking prestige pic tackling Important Issues, but when it was over it didn&#8217;t reverberate in my head in any meaningful way, just made me wanna go see another movie.<\/p>\n<p>Also: Darth Gavis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This had weird similarities with Mountains May Depart, which we watched the night before. It spans about the same amount of time, during which a boy is separated from his mother, moves to Australia and forgets her native language. This one&#8217;s the true story of &#8220;Saroo&#8221; who gets lost while adventuring with his big brother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,187,113,1788,1094,2191],"class_list":["post-11677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-australia","tag-india","tag-language","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-rooney-mara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11721,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11677\/revisions\/11721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}