I've found my winner for Best Actress this Oscars season, by means that if I must in that list of yet again whitewashed actors and actresses.
TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of rape & imprisonment.
Now this film tackles a sensitive issue, a woman is kidnapped and locked away for seven years. Out of those seven years, she gives birth to a boy within her first two years of being held captive. The man who imprisoned her to his garden shed rapes her every night and of course fathers the boy.
Let me say that this is hard-hitting, but not in such a blunt way as I expected, Room is quite poetic. We see through the eyes of 5 year old Jack, who is rather annoying, and loves Room where he has only known those fours walls all of his young life. He is annoying in the sense that he is a little bitch to his mother often, and won't help her with anything.
I mean you feel sorry for him, because how can he imagine a world he's never seen before.
Joy, his mother, suddenly uproots her storytelling of how a world outside Room does not exist. She's already told him that the people on T.V. are fake, everything they see on T.V. is actually fake. When she suddenly breaks and tells him she was lying and there are others in the world other than them, he becomes more annoying and is ruder than ever. You feel mostly bad for her due to his ignorance, but then again she put it in his head in the first place.
In short, Joy uses Jack to gain freedom from their prison, and they are rescued slowly but surely. It then begins to concentrate on their acceptance to the world Joy had left behind. With her parents divorced and the press hounding her family, Joy soon becomes unhinged and disregards her fragile son. Without providing spoilers, things become bleak, but the faith of one little boy brings Joy back to life and things become less stressful - for Joy and the audience.
Room stressed me out if I'm honest, but on the whole this was a very interesting film. I enjoyed it and took on board how emotional is was. You may cry, I sniffled at one point, only due to being close to home. The concept of this film, if you will, probably stems from how strong a mother's love can be. I dunno, something mushy like that.
Just be aware, when you watch this you may feel alienated to an extent.
Overall it's amazing acting, from both Brie Larson as 'Ma' and Jacob Tremblay as 'Jack'.
The acting from Jacob Tremblay especially, concerning his abilities to play an unappreciative yet innocent and generally impressionable little boy.
All I'm saying is that my hopes and predictions go to Brie Larson for Best Actress, because she outdid herself.
TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of rape & imprisonment.
Let me say that this is hard-hitting, but not in such a blunt way as I expected, Room is quite poetic. We see through the eyes of 5 year old Jack, who is rather annoying, and loves Room where he has only known those fours walls all of his young life. He is annoying in the sense that he is a little bitch to his mother often, and won't help her with anything.
I mean you feel sorry for him, because how can he imagine a world he's never seen before.
Joy, his mother, suddenly uproots her storytelling of how a world outside Room does not exist. She's already told him that the people on T.V. are fake, everything they see on T.V. is actually fake. When she suddenly breaks and tells him she was lying and there are others in the world other than them, he becomes more annoying and is ruder than ever. You feel mostly bad for her due to his ignorance, but then again she put it in his head in the first place.
In short, Joy uses Jack to gain freedom from their prison, and they are rescued slowly but surely. It then begins to concentrate on their acceptance to the world Joy had left behind. With her parents divorced and the press hounding her family, Joy soon becomes unhinged and disregards her fragile son. Without providing spoilers, things become bleak, but the faith of one little boy brings Joy back to life and things become less stressful - for Joy and the audience.
Room stressed me out if I'm honest, but on the whole this was a very interesting film. I enjoyed it and took on board how emotional is was. You may cry, I sniffled at one point, only due to being close to home. The concept of this film, if you will, probably stems from how strong a mother's love can be. I dunno, something mushy like that.
Just be aware, when you watch this you may feel alienated to an extent.
Overall it's amazing acting, from both Brie Larson as 'Ma' and Jacob Tremblay as 'Jack'.
The acting from Jacob Tremblay especially, concerning his abilities to play an unappreciative yet innocent and generally impressionable little boy.
All I'm saying is that my hopes and predictions go to Brie Larson for Best Actress, because she outdid herself.
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