The Lost Children
The Lost Children
7.088%
Four Indigenous children stranded in Colombian Amazon after plane crash. Guided by ancestral knowledge, they survive while awaiting rescue operation amid the jungle's challenges.
Varun reviewedJanuary 7, 2025
An awesome documentary showcasing humanity at its best. First of all, kudos to the volunteers from both the indigenous communities and the military for trying everything they possibly could and painstakingly traversing the jungles for days on end to find the lost children. It’s true when people say children are the hope of society, they made strangers want to sacrifice their lives in order to save them, and even eliminated historical tensions between different groups. The doc had a great narrative structure that seamlessly blended real footage with powerful scenes of nature. The score was so beautiful and ethereal, it really made me connect with an otherworldly presence in many moments. The power of the jungle was captured perfectly, modern humans are so used to living outside of nature that when we revisit where we all originated from, it feels completely alien. Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, you are bound to have some kind of spiritual gnosis, with the overwhelming cacophony of sounds, scents, species, dangers, weather conditions, traversal obstacles, etc, heightening and challenging your senses beyond what you’re normally used to. People joined the search for various personal reasons, but the pure innocent intention of finding these kids combined with facing the full force of Mother Earth transformed everyone, and the best achievement of this doc is it’s success in giving the viewer a taste of that transformation. The recollection scene with the paper drawings was so striking. I don’t want to spoil much, but I’ll just say there’s one hallucinogenic scene that really makes you question how much nature can communicate to us and if humans are truly capable of receiving it’s message. I don’t wish to question Indigenous wisdom, even if it’s hard to ascertain it’s supernatural veracity, there seems to be some kind of awakening of intuitive powers possible within us that leads us to the truth. Could be a pure coincidence, but the leader’s visions ultimately worked in giving everyone that final motivation. It’s crazy to me that most of society is completely uninterested in teaching children basic survival skills, it’s so important to incorporate indigenous knowledge into our education. I hope more people watch this film and that it continues to bring healing to Colombia and the rest of the world.