Born Free
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Movie Reviews of Born Free
Movie Review: Timeless and Memorable Story of Life Cycle!
Summary: 5 Stars
After so many reviews by the distinguished people here, very little is left unspoken, if there is at all any.
First of all, for any movie goer, this is a MUST. This is a sweet movie of a wonderful true story, performed superbly by the actors and even by the animals (whom you won't like to think as animals after the movie finishes).
Apart from technicalities (vivid imagery of Kenya), acting and top class music, what I liked most of the movie is the simple, lyrical way it tells us the eternal story of life cycle. Not only of lions or animals, but human being as well, may be of all living beings.
Passion and care in grooming Elsa and her siblings were no different than grooming one's own children (the couple had no children), while the way Elsa has been trained to acclimatized to the world including swimming only reminds us about growing kids. The ultimate test of parenthood for the couple came to teach and facilitate Elsa to have a partner in the wild, which brought in as much excitement, joy, suspense and concern as parents feel when their daughter gets married. The wonder of the movie is, through this cycle of the lions, we remember the eternal cycle of life of human being as well. Starting with Elsa's cubhood to her motherhood, thereby triggering another set of cubhood - the film charms us with this ageless story of life cycle. A sweet, brilliant and memorable movie.
Movie Review: A touching family flim
Summary: 5 Stars
As the story opens, George Adamson (Bill Travers), a game warden in Kenya, is bringing three orphan lion cubs home to be cared for by his wife, Joy (Virginia McKenna). Raised as pets, two of them are eventually sent away to zoos, but the third, Elsa, was especially loved and they decided to keep her. Of course, that soon became impossible, so they set about rehabilitating her back into the wild knowing she might not survive, but feeling she must have the chance to live free.
In the 1950s, no one had ever reintroduced an animal to the wild, and the Adamses were the first animal lovers to do so. Travers and McKenna are wonderful as the couple and went on to become animal activists after the filming of the movie. Geoffrey Keene (the 'Minister of Defence' in six James Bond movies) gives able support as George's boss. The Kenyan landscape photography is simply breathtaking and the lions, at various stages of development, are adorable.
John Barry won Academy Awards for both his score and song, which are truly iconic and guaranteed to have you reaching for the tissues. This beautiful, inspiring, and unforgettable movie is a must-see for animal lovers.
Movie Review: Wonderful movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Born Free," is an absolute wonderful film. It's beautiful, about a couple who take care of a lion cub whom they love and nurture and name Elsa. She is smart and they love her like a child. But also they want her to be free and never to be put in a zoo. It's a very emotional and moving film. I'd give it ten stars it certainlty desrves it. It's a true story based on a book. Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, real life husband and wife portray a married couple in the movie too. They are wonderful actors first rate. They make the performance moving, sad, and happy. They capture all the moments. Elsa is also a star in the movie. She's very sweet and a gentle lion who doesn't hurt anyone, because she's been raised since a cub by humens. The tile song alone adds much more emotion too the film and helps tell the story and tell it's theme. It's a beautiful and inspiring song. I'd highly recommend this film to anyone. There are some flaws too from the time period it was made and the wrong and unfair treatment of Africans as servents.
But the rest of the film is good and the scenery in Kenya is breathtakingly beautiful.
Movie Review: simply a great, clean, and utterly captivating family movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Without bombs, bullet, swear words, light sabers, bathroom humor, or any special effects, this managed to hold a wide age range group's attention. Other reviewers have commented a lot about the VHS movie, so let me confine my remarks to the DVD.
Actually, as DVDs go, this is not so great. The movie makes you very curious about a lot of things: how in the heck did they train the animals to make all their moves for the camera? how true to life is the story? and so on. The DVD, by virtue of totally lacking extras, utterly fails to answer any of those questions. The picture has that of-an-era very colorful and yet simultaneously slightly washed out look that begs, nay screams, for some kind of color correction. And the sound clearly has effects of tape compression or something; it is not very open (I listened in stereo, and don't know if there is a 5.1 track).
If you're looking for a reference DVD with gorgeous cinematography of African scenes, this isn't it (due to the color imbalance)l. I give it 5 stars anyway simply because the movie is so well made.
Movie Review: Nicest movie
Summary: 5 Stars
My kids are 4 and 2. They were given Lion King last summer and have become Lion freaks - LOVE 'EM! Then I remembered this movie from my own childhood and ordered it for them. The story of a British game-keeper, George, and his wife, Joy, who adopt a Lioness cub, Elsa, and raise her in their African home. It was made in the 60's before politically correctness became the modern facism it is, so there is some hunting (guns are pointed and fired but nothing more is shown), and one scary scene at the beginning when a rogue lion attacks an African woman at the riverside (the woman screams and the river reddens - we skip that scene). But the rest is a lot of wonderful scenes of a well-loved lioness overturning the housewares, riding on the hood of their jeep, sleeping on their cot, and generally dominating their lives in a most fantastic way, before they train her to live free again in the wild. Its a lovely story that could never be told quite this way again, and we love it.