Oscars final designs - Lion

This was a poster that I left until last, as I didn't feel I knew enough about the film to communicate it clearly in an image. But I enjoyed exploring it visually and I think the outcome reflects that. Lion is the story of a boy who ends up on a train by mistake and ends up thousands of miles away from his family across India, surviving on the streets until he is adopted by an Australian couple. The film focuses on him trying to return to his home and find his original family. There is an optimism about these ideas I wanted to capture in my poster, and I thought the playfulness of turning the circular frame I've been using into a magnifying glass to reflect the lead character searching among his memories for his origin.
The iconography of the train is really interesting to me, as they often represent adventure and new horizons in a narrative sense, but the train in this film could be seen as an ominous and unaligned, careless force that separates the young boy from his family. For this reason, I wanted to make the train the central focus of the image, as it plays such a crucial role in the narrative. This concept is really engaging for me, as the train is the literal thing that changed the child's life, but you can't blame the train because it's inanimate, there is no malevolence involved, sometimes terrible things just happen and there is no one to blame, and in a way that's worse, because emotionally it's harder to accept and deal with it, because there is nothing and no one to pinpoint the cause of the event on. This is a complicated theme, so the inclusion of the train portrayed against the day turning into night is my stab at grasping it.