Movie review: little Sunny completely overshadows Dev Patel in 'Lion'

The film is edited so severely you feel it's exercising a savage economy over Saroo's emotional spaces which transcend unplumbed stretches of cultural specificity to occupy a kind of baggy free-spirited global significance that could have made for unwieldy cinema. This world of the translocated Indian urchin needed to be restrained. Garth Davis makes sure there is nothing over-done in the presentation.