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Two movies I saw in the last week, that were quite similar in a way...
Room - 8.5/10
Lion - 7/10
(Potential spoilers ahead...sort of...I mean, most people probably know the general stories of both, even if they haven't seen them.)
In both movies, the first 45 minutes or so are primarily about a young boy coping with a devastatingly traumatic experience. And both absolutely knock this portion out of the park. In Room, how the boy makes sense of his world i