Room (2015)
Country: EIRE/CAN/GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers
Synopsis:
A mother and her son are confined to a single enclosed room with only a skylight and nocturnal visits by their captor as links to the outside world. Her determination and survival instinct turn nightmare into victory, but the child's perception is different.
Review:
An extraordinary tale, given simplified film treatment here; this nevertheless succeeds in conveying that crucial child's viewpoint that explains the second half of the movie's central conundrum: it is the mother who is irrevocably changed, and who cannot embrace freedom; the child, institutionalized though it is, quickly adapts. A key climactic scene has them revisit the place of their incarceration, a garden shed, whereupon the boy nostalgically notes the missing furnishings and fingers the stigmata.
Country: EIRE/CAN/GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers
Synopsis:
A mother and her son are confined to a single enclosed room with only a skylight and nocturnal visits by their captor as links to the outside world. Her determination and survival instinct turn nightmare into victory, but the child's perception is different.
Review:
An extraordinary tale, given simplified film treatment here; this nevertheless succeeds in conveying that crucial child's viewpoint that explains the second half of the movie's central conundrum: it is the mother who is irrevocably changed, and who cannot embrace freedom; the child, institutionalized though it is, quickly adapts. A key climactic scene has them revisit the place of their incarceration, a garden shed, whereupon the boy nostalgically notes the missing furnishings and fingers the stigmata.
Country: EIRE/CAN/GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers
Synopsis:
A mother and her son are confined to a single enclosed room with only a skylight and nocturnal visits by their captor as links to the outside world. Her determination and survival instinct turn nightmare into victory, but the child's perception is different.
Review:
An extraordinary tale, given simplified film treatment here; this nevertheless succeeds in conveying that crucial child's viewpoint that explains the second half of the movie's central conundrum: it is the mother who is irrevocably changed, and who cannot embrace freedom; the child, institutionalized though it is, quickly adapts. A key climactic scene has them revisit the place of their incarceration, a garden shed, whereupon the boy nostalgically notes the missing furnishings and fingers the stigmata.