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My name is Rob.
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right now.
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Don't pour it.
Well, if I get lost as a child in a mall and well, yeah, yeah, it's the one that's
documented.
Now, whatever we do, one of these things, it is to review something and this one is new
exception.
Today or tonight, I don't care when you're listening, just we're just happy to listen.
We are working on the, this is the feature film debut for this director, isn't it?
I don't know.
Let me do double check.
Garth Davis.
Are you that right?
Garth Davis brings us lion.
This star's Dev Patel, Mari Runa, Nicole Kidman amongst others.
And before we start this whole thing, you know, even though we didn't see a screening, but
we got invited to a screening.
Yes, we did.
We got the person's screeners in the mall and we're able to see this film, but still we
want to think our best friends, Ellen, and the great marketing, want to thank Josh, everybody
else for these days.
What are these days that's going to stick?
This is a feature film debut, actually.
This is based on a true story, it is based on, from the book, a long way home by
Saru Beerley.
Basically, the character of Saru is played by two different actors, newcomer, Sunny
Parwar, I apologize for that.
One dev Patel, who you may remember from Slumdog, Millionaire, the best exotic, Mary Gold
Hotel, the newsroom.
Basically here's what happens.
Saru and his older brother, Goudu, are they live in fairly rough poverty in India.
They work, just odd jobs helping their mother out.
One night, Goudu is going to do some night work, Saru wants to go with him against his
own better judgment, Goudu takes him with him, and they get to this train station and
he says, and he just said, right here and wait for me, because he's kind of sleepy, you
know?
It's a guy trying to condo law India, and he says, I'm going to go try to fight
us some more cubby right back.
Well, Saru wakes up, can't find Goudu looks for him on a train, where the train takes
off.
There's nobody on the train to get him off the train.
He winds up 2,000 miles away, 1,000 miles, was it 1,000 miles?
Yeah.
Being so, finds himself in a strange place.
He doesn't, he can't, quite remember where he lives, so he doesn't know where he's been.
He winds up, living on the streets, and avoiding the things that tend to happen to young
children on the streets in very bad places in India, in Calcutta, and through some
circumstances, winds up getting adopted by a couple from Tasmania, Nicole Kidman places
adopted mother, and he goes out there and lives with a different brother that they've
adopted, and 25 years later, he decides he needs to go back and find his home, he needs
to find his mother and his brother, and the second, really, the second half of the film
is more about that.
A his adopted father played by David Wynnum.
Yeah.
I mean, he was like five at the time, and remember his 25 years later, he goes on this
quest.
That's why he can remember, because this is just short of two hours.
This movie is heart wrenching, and I put in my written review, which is located conveniently
at www.theclubhousepodcast.com, which is our website, that it has been a very, very long
time since I've seen a tandem of actors play a role like this, this well.
Like I can't give you, which one of these guys I thought play the role better, both very,
very strong actors, and I mean, just this story alone is tough to deal with, but when
you get two actors that really bring their A game like these two did, because Poir really
brings the child in a sense to it, where he grows up a little bit very quickly when he
realizes he has to go into survival mode, because he's seeing people that he's on the streets
with getting snatched up and going God knows where to have to be done, God knows what to
them, and then comes to this family, really is trying to be something of himself, his adopted
brother comes in, and we don't know what his background is, but it's not good, and so
he has to deal with the problems that his adopted brother has, and grows up to go to college,
and really starts to have this identity crisis, which is where Dev Patel of course picks
it up, because he picks it up as he's getting ready to graduate high school and go to college.
The stories told gorgeously, there were actually the real people were involved in this film,
the real screw, I really don't want to spoil the ending, but the one thing I will say about
the ending of this film is they do the deal where there's the stuff on the screen that tells you
what happens later, read every word, because there's some very powerful stuff in the ending
to this film, it was gorgeously shot, I just don't know if there's anything bad I can say
about this film, I can't say that this film is not going to be for everybody, oh no, if you are a
casual movie fan, not necessarily a film fan, if you are a movie fan, this might not be for you,
because there's a lot going on here, and so if you are a fan of film, understand that there's a
deliberate slow pace to this, there is when there is a score, it's gorgeously, but the score is
not there very often, so you deal with that on its level, it's definitely a departure from
the things that a lot of people see, but I don't know that this is for everybody, I wish I could say
it was, but I also don't want people to get into this thing and be like, man, let's go in on
here, this is really slow, and it's not yours, you're bang them up, shoot them up, kind of film,
this is a film, and it works out for me, it worked on a lot of different levels, what did you think?
Well, if you go to my room with you, www.theclothaskask.com, that's our website, I put on
their couple things which you, you talked a couple different things, which I want to bring up,
one was the acting, I got to give my shoutouts to Poir, and also Brote, who played the
brother, at the train station, that's our first rules for both of them, yeah, and this is their
first rules, and they hit it out of the park, even though Brote is not in there much, compared
to Poir, they really hit it out of the park, and I also put on there that this film, which you talked
about, Paul's no punches, it shows that it does not, in the city of street life, on the big city,
in some of these, in what happens to lobbies, children in these third world countries where
unfortunate things happen, it's all I want to say, yeah, and you're talking about the soundtrack,
but the thing I really liked about, I would have to give us to the audio of the film, that train,
when he wakes up and that train's going, how fast, and he doesn't know what's going on,
he's like, where are we going? The audio, the sound editing, I have to give it to that,
big time, the sound editing wasn't credible, honestly. And even, you know, of course, we're now on
the other side of the great flood in this house, I've had to take my home theater system down,
so I'm just using the audio out of my television, and it sounds amazing, it really, really does.
Yeah, you're talking about, you know, staying to the end, and there's, which I really enjoyed
about the film, and I know you like that when they show the real life. I saw a thing on one of those
new shows, and it actually had the real life seru, and they were talking about because the
influence about be released, and they did it like one of the segments on him, and through all these
historical documents, this film is a real real, you know, 90% something, 90% something,
of what really happened. I mean, this was based on his book. Yeah, so, I mean, there's a,
this is, there's a few things they dramaticize, but still when it comes on to it, 90 something
percent of this film was real life what happened, and it holds no punches, and you really feel
for this kid. I mean, you think you're, he isn't what he's, see, he's from about his five years
old. Yeah, you know, he remembers being in that village, but you know, we don't go to school,
and your mother loads rocks for a living, you know, and you live in a real life, it shows us in
real life, the house they lived in, and real life, which shows in the movie, is basically made of mud
and, and cow dung. I also wrote this in the trivia on this, that Patel's first film scene
was the last scene of the film. Oh, really? Yes, we don't want to go there, but yeah, the very
last scene of the film was the first thing he filmed. Oh, really? So, yeah, and you really don't go to
IMDB for the trivia yet, see the film first, and then, because there's a lot of things that I want to
talk about about, I really don't want to see it, but I can't say enough good things about this movie.
I mean, acting a spot on Patel, and everybody knows why love for Nicole Kidman, but like, you know,
or like, he says that it's unfairly employed in G. Yes, but I will always give the do on her.
Yeah. Yeah, like I have on move on. Really? She's not in this very much, but she's still
degrading that. You know what you're going to get with her. And Rudy Mara also great. I also found out
that he's, she plays his college girlfriend, but apparently she is a combination of a bunch of
different women that he dated during that time. Okay. And she really becomes his conscience,
where he's really borderlining on insanity with what he's trying to figure out, because he can't
remember the name of the village. He can't quite remember. They're using Google Earth to try to
track where the trains could have gone. And he's really just this obsession is driving him crazy.
And she's kind of that anchor that he pushes her away, but she's like, you know what? I'm still here.
I can't stand me. And it's, it's viewed, the chemistry between them is beautiful, and it's very
well done. Again, I can't find fault with this film. I can't do it. Well, there's one thing
though, like you talked about how they did some minor changes. Like, one is that in the film,
he tells Nicole Kim and his character what he was doing all that time. No, in real life,
from the beginning, the mother knew and supported him the whole time. So there were some minor
things, but still, you know, overall good on this, but like you're saying, yeah, it's slow moving.
It is. It's a very slow moving film. But it's, it's a plot simplistic, but it's a deliberate
and it's plot simplistic when it comes down to it. But do you know what? Sometimes that works.
Yeah, not every film has to be a agreed of VOOM 90 miles an hour, keep me so interested, where,
you know, I really like what you said about that about the thing where, you know, some people who
just want that foot film and leave the brain at the door don't, not on this one. Totally agreed.
100% on anything else we want to say before we write this thing. I, like you're saying,
I really can't find anything wrong with this film either. All right. Let's, let's ask the questions
then as we like to say. The way we rate films on this show, we're not going to do thumbs up,
thumbs down, let it grades numbers, anything like that. Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the
empire. They want us to dig deeper. We're going to dig deeper. Two questions. Question one,
would we see this film again? If the answer is no, we're done here. If the answer is yes,
then the question becomes how far are you willing to go? Here's the spectrum from best to worst.
Full price, twilight, matinee, early morning, second run, red box, netflix, cable,
don, would you see this again? Well, considering that we got the screener copy from the studio,
hmm, hey, to tell you, but I already seen a twice. So far, do you see? Well, then the answer yes.
Of course. So in the pantheon and spectrum of what we normally see, how far you want to go.
Actually, on this one, I mean, either say twilight or full price. So you're, you're,
you're borderlining on the top. Yeah, because I can only find a thing wrong with this film.
I would definitely see this again. I definitely would see it in a theater. It wouldn't stop me
from seeing it in a theater. But definitely, I would urge everyone to see this if we're no
with a reason to see the plight of what these kids go through. And there's a charity that's been
set up to coincide with this film. And I urge people to get involved. Yeah. And there's some real
subtle things for like, there's one, one, there's that one scene that really kind of got to
me where you thought there were some people trying to help them, but then you find it under like,
I mean, it also punches, you know, like spotlight or whatever that you name it, you know. It is
lying. It is directed by Garth Davis. And again, we got it, even though like we didn't see that
press screening, we still got to think Joshua, buddy. It's a lot of great marketing. Thanks for the
invite, you know, so of course we love doing stuff for them. Let's do the plugs.
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