![]() The second significant scene was when Saroo had become a successful 30-year-old man living with his girlfriend. ![]() ![]() Saroo befriends some other children that appear to also be homeless at the train station but are interrupted by men that attempt to kidnap the children. Saroo runs away but soon finds himself befriended by an older woman that takes him home, bathes and feeds him and reassures him that she will help him. A friend comes to see them the next day, but Saroo has a bad feeling about their intentions and runs away again. Saroo survives on the street for a couple of months by begging and looking for food when he once again is befriended by a stranger. This man takes him to a children’s shelter where he is a little safer. However, he observes a man that comes at night to take a boy away, stating he will return him in the morning.Īspects to look for/further review. Toward the end of the movie, a message appears on the screen that states over 80,000 children go missing from India each year, and street children estimated by the last census of the Government of India were 1.8 million (Mitra, Yadav, & Biswas, 2015). Some of these homeless children are runaways, orphans, refugees, displaced children and those from dysfunctional families who find themselves at railway stations, since most street children had to work to earn a livelihood (Mitra, Yadav, & Biswas, 2015). Such children are extremely vulnerable to abuse by railway staff, hawkers, porters, police, and even from older children that includes general abuse and neglect, health abuse, verbal abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, and sexual abuse. He also is unable to pronounce his name or the name of his city correctly, so no one can understand who he is or where he came. Saroo is lost, homeless, and vulnerable. ![]() The first significant sequence of scenes chosen was when Saroo went with his brother to look for loose change left on stationary trains at night near his hometown. Saroo falls asleep, so Gadu leaves him and instructs him to wait for him. When Saroo awakes, he realizes Gadu has not yet returned, so he panics and searches for Gadu on one of the abandoned trains. The train begins to move, and he soon finds himself traveling more than a thousand miles to a city on the other side of India called Calcutta. Saroo only knows Hindi and finds difficulty communicating because of Calcutta uses a Bengali dialect. Saroo lives with his mother, older brother, and sister with little income to take care of their needs. Their father had abandoned his family years earlier. The oldest sibling, Gadu, had family responsibility to look after his younger siblings and to help his mother supplement income by taking coal from trains and searching for loose money on trains that were not in use. There are many themes interwoven through the story of Saroo that include teaching children to make safe choices, dealing with past traumatic experiences, and communication of one’s true feelings in order to resolve issues and increase communication with one another. The movie, Lion Story and a book, a long way home both originated from a true story of Saroo Brierley, a five-year-old child from Khandwa, India that gets separated from his family and finds himself on the streets of Calcutta learning to survive. He begins a twenty-five-year journey that takes him to Australia and finally back again to reunite with his mom and sister.
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