The Good Lie

Movie- The Good Lie

Director- Phillippe Falardeau

Genre- Drama/True story

What an AMAZING and heart-stirring and emotional movie! The movie is about a group of Sudanese refugees who are given a new lease of life when they are taken to USA. The story follows them from their journey as little children whose families are killed due to war. They walk for miles facing numerous challenges and finally reach the refugee camp in Kenya where they spend a few years before they are taken to USA.

There are some really sweet moments in the film that stay with you long after the movie. The movie showcases how they try to gain a foothold in a new place and the changes they have to make for that. This might is exceptional and I loved each and every frame. The songs and background music is also really moving. Each emotion of innocence, love, sacrifice and bonding is so well portrayed ! The scenes at the beginning where they face trouble in their war-torn village is heart -breaking. This movie should NOT be missed. I was truly mesmerised! It is sad in parts but it also gives us hope.

This moving story possesses an honesty that compensates for any of the more obvious tugs on our tear ducts, most of which arrive in the latter part of the film.  The primary source of this authenticity is a cast populated with South Sudanese actors who captivate without pretense. Two of the three male leads, as well as the actress who plays their sister, were caught up in the conflict before fleeing their homeland for asylum elsewhere. One was a child soldier, the other two lost relatives in the war.

The Good Lie honours its subject matter by devoting its first half-hour or so to events that unfold in Sudan, starting with a sudden and brutal attack on a rural village. Bullets are fired from a swooping helicopter, killing everyone save for several children. Related or not, they form a makeshift family and embark on a grueling 1,000-mile barefoot trek across punishing terrain where the threat of danger is around every bend. Starvation, a lack of water and illness claim the lives of several of the companions. As for Theo, who inherited his late father’s status as chief, he allows himself to be captured to save the rest, who eventually find sanctuary at a Kenyan refugee camp. And there they will stay for 13 years, until humanitarian efforts abroad allow them to seek a permanent home in Kansas City.