After 5-year-old Jack and his Ma escape from the enclosed
surroundings that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a thrilling
discovery: the outside world. As he experiences all the joy, excitement, and
fear that this new adventure brings, he holds tight to the one thing that
matters most of all—his special bond with his loving and devoted mom.
Both highly suspenseful and deeply emotional, ROOM is a
unique and touching exploration of the boundless love between a mother and her
child. After 5-year-old Jack (Jacob Tremblay) and his Ma (Brie Larson) escape
from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire life, the boy
makes a thrilling discovery: the outside world. As he experiences all the joy,
excitement, and fear that this new adventure brings, he holds tight to the one
thing that matters most of all--his special bond with his loving and devoted
Ma.
ROOM tells the extraordinary story of Jack (Jacob Tremblay)
is a spirited 5 year-old who is looked after by his loving and devoted Ma (Brie
Larson). Like any good mother, Ma dedicates herself to keeping Jack happy and
safe, nurturing him with warmth and love and doing typical things like playing
games and telling stories. Their life, however, is anything but typical—they
are trapped—confined to a windowless, 10-by-10-foot space, which Ma has
euphemistically named “Room.” Ma has created a whole universe for Jack within
Room, and she will stop at nothing to ensure that, even in this treacherous
environment, Jack is able to live a complete and fulfilling life. But as Jack’s
curiosity about their situation grows, and Ma’s resilience reaches its breaking
point, they enact a risky plan to escape, ultimately bringing them face-to-face
with what may turn out to be the scariest thing yet: the real world.
The morning after "old Nick" hits Ma, Jack sees the bruises on her neck. Later, she has the idea to pretend Jack's got the fever, but she remarks it has to be that day because the power was cut. Therefore it is established that it only has passed one day, but her bruises are gone. You can't see purple, blue, green, yellow, as the common stages of it.
ReplyDeleteWhen Jack is cracking eggs waiting for Nancy to wipe egg off his hands, the whisk in the bowl disappears out of the bowl without being touched, in fact is not visible on the table at all.
On film, it’s a slightly different beast. Few of the crucial plot maneuvers have been changed – Donoghue’s own script is a tidy treatment, carefully placing one foot in front of the other, before breaking into a brief sprint halfway through.
ReplyDeleteAbrahamson scores very highly, though, in making the daily rituals of this malnourished pair come credibly alive.
This is definitely at the top of my best movies of the year, simply because it is incredibly done and perfectly portrayed. Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay give some of the best performances I've ever seen in my life in any movie what so ever. The kid, Jacob, is phenomenal and surprisingly he carries it all throughout. You'd think that an amazing actress like Brie, and her character would be the center of the movie but that's actually not the case.
ReplyDeleteI think that one of the main reasons as to why this movie worked so wonderfully well was the screenplay written by the author of the original book that this movie is based upon, Emma Donoghue.
With visual and psychological precision, Abrahamson brilliantly evokes the experience of living outside of everyday reality and he does so without resorting to either creepiness or sentimentality.
ReplyDeleteThe movie packed with touching scenes wonderful dialogue creative environments that contribute to the already beautiful film. In the end; Room should be among everyone must watch films as its one of the best films of the year.
An air tight script and swift direction boost Room into so much more than a relationship between a mother and son, but rather a subtle and poignant film about life and the world.
ReplyDeleteEspecially the first half of the film is amazing. The mother and five years old Jack looks somewhat happy or at least happy with their routine and having each other.
Room is astonishing, where it transmutes a lurid, true-crime situation into a fairy tale in which fairy tales are a source of survival.
ReplyDeleteIt would be wrong to reveal the midpoint climax, which didn’t literally stop my heart but made me wish I had some nitroglycerin tablets just in case. The second half of Room brings out all the irreconcilables. The world outside has infinite space but limited warmth, including a house that demonstrates the sibling-closeness of affluence and alienation.
Not unlike its main characters, Room itself beats the odds: It’s a deeply satisfying, profoundly moving adaptation of a popular novel, an all-too-rare occurrence in modern Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteAbrahamson doesn’t force any unnecessary flourishes upon Room, and cinematographer Danny Cohen’s evocative images, culled from a restless camera often situated at Jack’s eye level, effectively convey the claustrophobia of Room.
It is a mesmerizing tale of hope, survival and if we are going to get all fancy about it, the sheer resilience of the human spirit.
ReplyDeleteIt is impressively gripping, moving and profoundly thought-provoking.