I don't know a room can provides us such an astonishing performance of beautiful, one of a kind moving experience about life. Director Lenny Abrahamson is worthy for all the praises for adapting Room into a thrilling experience. Room, is one of the best movie I've ever watched with a very humble gestures that resting aside big revelations like The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Big Short, and their other equally famous titles on the running of 2015 Academy Awards.
Five years old Jack lives in a squalid shed all his life. Beautifully captured and written, Room gives us a firm look inside Jack's mind of how this so called tiny "Room" becomes his entire world. Jack has no conceptual understanding of outside and submissively perceive everything unexplained as magic from the unreal television world. His much loved Ma, Joy is held captive when she is seventeen by man the two called Old Nick and been living with his frequent rape and beating inside the room ever since. No matter how crazy it might sound, Joy strived to stay sane for his son. After much struggles and depressed attempts, they are eventually free; but the aftermath is a completely different story.
I don't know how can I possibly explained all the flowing emotions that happened in Room. You are just going to feel extremely worst looking at the life Jack has to compromise living inside Room all his life, but it is the life outside that eventually drives Joy mad. The outside world is something big and real time scary for Jack. Confusing, also. There are suddenly so many people in so big space and he struggles so much to overcome the fear and understanding the real and unreal idea. In this case for Joy, when she is yet again having the life she has left when she is only seventeen back in her parents' home, everything that strikes back to her brought a tremendous amount of remorse and sorrow of what should have been happened seven years prior. Everything has changed, obviously--and her life has ruined. Just like how much Joy tried to be Jack's strength, what moved me the most is how much five years old Jack whose daily lives post Room have been a survival confusing battle against himself, tried to be hers.
The abduction case made a national news and those are not helping the process of recovery they need to pass through. Little Jack is clueless, but he is actually being a pretty adorable scaredy-cat in witnessing everything he hasn't been. The psychological tension are playing a big part in the second half of the movie as they are carefully built in the first. The duo; Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay are giving a superb performance in acting and chemistry building. The bound to be emotional impact of the haunting and traumatizing event are filling the grasp of what we as a viewers want to learn more than what happened to the abductor. And eventually, it is about how Jack is opening up to the world and still loving his Ma just the same.
Michelle
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