It is very rare for me to be completely consumed in
watching a movie. I’m usually over analyzing each scene trying to figure out
the climax before it happens. I’m almost always successful and it drives my
husband nuts when we watch movies together, because I blurt out my plot
predictions and spoil it for him. But not this time, for two hours you could
hear a pin drop in the theatre as the audience, including me, were transfixed
on the screen.
The first half of the movie felt like five minutes. I was
on the edge of my seat hanging on each scene transition. The other half of the
movie felt longer like a slow and steady incline of emotion followed by a steep
dive into inspiration. It was one of the best movies I’ve seen in years. It was
all thanks to Jacob Tremblay the
actor who played Jack, a five year old boy who has never left “Room”.
The audiences knows before
going in that Jack and his mom Joy, played by Brie Larson, are being held
captive in a small shed in the backyard of some creepy guy that they call Old
Nick. I honestly thought to myself that this is going to be your typical plot
of mom and son triumphing by escaping and go on to live a normal lives, but I
was wrong.
Yes they escape, but the
story isn’t about that triumph. It’s about Jack’s amazing interpretations of
the world as he sees it for the first time. His simply and eloquent perspective
leave your psyche forever altered and wondering how Jack makes it so easy to
see the beauty in it all.
In the end I felt that Joy
and Jack’s experience in "Room" left them awakened to a unique bond they share be
being each other’s strength to survive. That’s the
beauty of great storytelling, when the audience’s expectations are altered to
inflict and completely different experience. One that leaves you deep in
thought as a result of its impact.
There is nothing more for me
to say than for you to go and see it for yourself. I promise you won’t regret
it, but my advice is to bring tissues.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6fZ-fwDws
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