Room--Life in the Room is the Whole World

Teresa 2022-08-05 11:28:40

Girl Joey was deceived by a neighbor and was imprisoned in a small room for seven years. During this period, she was raped and gave birth to her son, Jack. Like all mothers, Joey also tried her best to create a safe and happy atmosphere for the children to grow up in. Although they were trapped in a room less than 10 square meters, they created a magical world for their son through fantasy. But as he grew up day by day, Jack's curiosity made him no longer satisfied with the world, so Joey carefully planned and took Jack out of the room where they were imprisoned. However, after escaping, the mother and son, who had been out of society for too long, realized that the real world was what scared them the most. Jack is a five-year-old boy who has never left the room since the day he was born. He believed that everything in this room was real, and everything else was illusory. But how would Jack react when his mother suddenly told him that there were other real things outside of this room?

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  • Michele 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The People of Toronto Tears Award. Room is a prison. The mother and the son have been escaping. The first half is physical escape, and the second half is psychological escape. The gimmick and eyeballs in the first half are wonderful enough, and the mother and son cry incomparably when they hug the outside world for the first time. But afterwards, the handling of the psychological change was a bit soft, and I felt that I had restrained the sensationalism, but trying to describe the subtle psychological change from the perspective of a child seemed too difficult to handle well.

  • Catalina 2022-03-21 09:01:13

    What surprises me is that the movie does not stop at explaining how to "escape the room", but also focuses on how to construct a new world for children after escaping from the room. "Has the room shrunk?" the child asked. No, it's just that your world has become bigger. "The room with the open door is no longer a room." "Do you want to close the door?" "No." Child, since the new world has opened to you, say goodbye to the old room.

Room quotes

  • [first lines]

    Ma: Ssh. Go back to sleep.

    Jack: [reciting to himself] Once upon a time, before I came, you cried and cried and watched TV all day, until you were a zombie. But then I zoomed down from heaven, through skylight, into Room. Whoosh-pshew! And I was kicking you from the inside. Boom, boom! And then I shot out onto Rug with my eyes wide open, and you cutt-ed the cord and said, "Hello, Jack!"

  • Jack: There are so many things out here. And sometimes it's scary. But that's ok. Because it's still just you and me...