Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Born Free’

PG | 1 h 35 min | Drama, Adventure | 1966
We normally use “it” for animals. not sure we can do that it as it kind of works against his point.
You could say that this story about lions is a very human story, because it’s told with traits you’d hardly expect in lion country. It’s told like a fairytale, to be savored by children and adults. It’s told with respect for the unspoken, but indisputable, dignity of wild animals. It’s told with humor and, above all, with a sensitivity that’s alive to the sacred uniqueness of each animal.
Stationed in 1950s’ Kenya, wildlife warden George Adamson and wife Joy (played by real-life showbiz couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna) shelter a lion cub after George is forced to put down her man-eating parents. Charmed by her playfulness, the couple impulsively take the cub and her siblings into their care, without realizing what they’re getting themselves (and the cub) into….



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