Room (2015)
When a tragedy befalls a family, it is not just the victim who has to deal with the brunt of the misery. Everybody in the family also goes through hell and faces stresses on a daily basis. Relationships go sour and bonds break.
The victims cannot be thinking that they can demand special attention for the ordeal that they went through. Everyone else goes through the pain too.
This emotional drama with a string of accolades behind it narrates the story of how a kidnapped and raped young mother with her child adjust to life after escaping their captor.
Jo was kidnapped, trapped and locked up in a shed seven years previously. Jack, the product of rape, grows up cooped up without ever seeing anything beyond the skylight on the ceiling. Their routine is monotonous with repetitive unstimulating activity. Their only connection to the world is a grainy TV. Jack actually grows up thinking that the universe is the shed. Beyond the wall of his room is outer space. Jack celebrates his 5th birthday. Jo is depressed over her situation but is hopeful that things would change for the better.
Joyce and Jack managed to hoodwink the captor, Old Nick, into faking Jack's death. As Old Nick tries to dispose of the body, Jack jumps off the moving pick-up truck to alert a passer-by in a well planned and executed move.
That is when the film gets excited. It goes on to explore Jack acceptance of modern living and interaction with other people. Jo’s parents have divorced, probably related to her disappearance. Her father, however, just cannot accept Jack as his grandchild. Jo finds a TV interview that she agreed to give too overwhelming as the public tend to be judgemental on her method of handling of her incarceration and her child’s upbringing.
After embroiled in a para-suicide, Jo is hospitalised. Jack slowly opens up and blends into society.
An intense movie which would not excite those who treat films as an outlet to relieve one of his stresses and to swim into the ocean of imagination to lands that no man has ever been. Stories like the one above are by far too common in real life. Just that we can appreciate that they may be more one reason why one does get into a mess which seems so plain to us. Who are we to judge in the comfort of cushy lives seated in armed chairs atop the ivory towers!
When a tragedy befalls a family, it is not just the victim who has to deal with the brunt of the misery. Everybody in the family also goes through hell and faces stresses on a daily basis. Relationships go sour and bonds break.The victims cannot be thinking that they can demand special attention for the ordeal that they went through. Everyone else goes through the pain too.
This emotional drama with a string of accolades behind it narrates the story of how a kidnapped and raped young mother with her child adjust to life after escaping their captor.
Jo was kidnapped, trapped and locked up in a shed seven years previously. Jack, the product of rape, grows up cooped up without ever seeing anything beyond the skylight on the ceiling. Their routine is monotonous with repetitive unstimulating activity. Their only connection to the world is a grainy TV. Jack actually grows up thinking that the universe is the shed. Beyond the wall of his room is outer space. Jack celebrates his 5th birthday. Jo is depressed over her situation but is hopeful that things would change for the better.
Joyce and Jack managed to hoodwink the captor, Old Nick, into faking Jack's death. As Old Nick tries to dispose of the body, Jack jumps off the moving pick-up truck to alert a passer-by in a well planned and executed move.
That is when the film gets excited. It goes on to explore Jack acceptance of modern living and interaction with other people. Jo’s parents have divorced, probably related to her disappearance. Her father, however, just cannot accept Jack as his grandchild. Jo finds a TV interview that she agreed to give too overwhelming as the public tend to be judgemental on her method of handling of her incarceration and her child’s upbringing.
After embroiled in a para-suicide, Jo is hospitalised. Jack slowly opens up and blends into society.
An intense movie which would not excite those who treat films as an outlet to relieve one of his stresses and to swim into the ocean of imagination to lands that no man has ever been. Stories like the one above are by far too common in real life. Just that we can appreciate that they may be more one reason why one does get into a mess which seems so plain to us. Who are we to judge in the comfort of cushy lives seated in armed chairs atop the ivory towers!
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