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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 7:25:05 GMT
At no point in "Lion" does it show the Australian couple visiting the orphanage and coming across Saroo. The same is true of his adopted brother. With Saroo, we just hear a woman tell him one day at the orphanage that an Australian couple wants to adopt him. Is this how events really unfolded with Saroo and his adopted brother – with the Australian couple at no point visiting the orphanage? As depicted on screen, it comes across as arbitrary and not all that believable.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 20, 2017 22:44:03 GMT
At no point in "Lion" does it show the Australian couple visiting the orphanage and coming across Saroo. The same is true of his adopted brother. With Saroo, we just hear a woman tell him one day at the orphanage that an Australian couple wants to adopt him. Is this how events really unfolded with Saroo and his adopted brother – with the Australian couple at no point visiting the orphanage? As depicted on screen, it comes across as arbitrary and not all that believable. I am going to read the book on which the film is based, but the situation does not seem implausible to me. Thirty years ago, I do not envision Australian or Western couples actually visiting some wretched orphanage in India to pick out their children—and I doubt that the Indian authorities would have wanted or allowed them to do so. Indeed, the notion that some sort of agency would have handled the filtering makes total sense to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 0:18:13 GMT
There must have been hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of children in that orphanage. Would some sort of agency really have sent all those photos and profiles to a couple in another continent, though?
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