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I always remember the last scene of "Trumen's World", where the Trumen played by Jin Carrie stepped up the steps, slid his hand across the walls of the "world", and finally staggered to the door to the new world.
Truman is a reality show actor who has been "brought in captivity" since he was a child, but he himself has not been aware of it for 30 years. When Truman discovered that the "Peach Blossom Spring"-like island where he was on was just a TV show set. Everyone around him, "parents", "wives", and "friends" are all actors; everything in front of him, "flowers", "sky", and "sea" are props; when he knows all his life is one I thought of fleeing when I was playing a huge scam weaving carefully.
At the end of the movie, the "Creator" (high-level TV show) he had never seen had a final dialogue with him. He said: "The outside world is more unreal than my fictional world, and it is also full of lies and hypocrisy, but In my world, you don't need to be afraid." Truman hesitated for a moment, and took a firm step.
When he finally left, he said: "If I never see you again, I wish you good morning, good morning, good night, good night." As usual, he said hello to the world he was in and goodbye to the "neighborhood" as usual. .
This farewell scene is the same as the last scene in the movie "The Room", and the mood of the little boy Jack in the movie is almost like Truman-Jack and his mother return to the room where they had been imprisoned for several years. Yidi said goodbye to the objects in the room. He said, "Goodbye potted plants, goodbye chair no.1, goodbye chair no.2, goodbye table, goodbye wardrobe, goodbye sink, goodbye skylight..." Like every morning before, he was excited. Say hello to them: "Hello pot, hello chair, hello table, hello wardrobe..."
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This is a movie hailed by foreign media as the most moving movie of 2015. The actor Brie Larson, who played the role of the mother in the movie, won the 88th Oscar. This is a heartbreaking story. The same The mother in the movie is also really frustrating.
Seven years ago, his mother was raped and kidnapped on the way to school. Later, she was imprisoned in a room, unable to escape, and became a sex slave. Later, he and the kidnapper Old Nick gave birth to a child-a little boy. Jack, the movie "The Room" tells the story of the mother and son escaping from the cage and rebuilding their minds.
The film tells the story from the perspective of the little boy Jack from the beginning to the end. The film starts on Jack's 5th birthday. Just as the title of the film is "The Room", the meaning of the room is the same as the world in the eyes of the little boy Jack. Although this room is only a few square meters, the only connection with the outside world is a small skylight on the roof and a table. TV with poor signal.
Jack was born and grew up in this room. He has never been outside. He paces in the room non-stop every day. His mother told him that as long as he walks back, there is infinite here. Say hello to the sink, toilet, wardrobe, and potted plants this morning. In his eyes, everything broadcast on TV is a fictitious illusion, and only what he touches is all true.
Just like Truman who has been contented for thirty years, Jack didn't feel anything wrong with this world. Perhaps because of his natural curiosity, he had also fantasized about the world outside the room, but most of the time, compared to his mother's desperation. , Jack thinks everything is as it should be.
Until the mother felt that this should not go on, Jack grew up, the body grew faster, he could not be imprisoned and restricted, she began to tell Jack the truth, she told her son that the old Nick who sent us food is not a magician , He is the kidnapper, he imprisoned us here, everything shown on TV is real, and the world is outside the room. She began to train Jack to pretend to be sick and dead, so that old Nick could take his "corpse" out to find the possibility of asking for help.
Faced with his mother's remarks, Jack just kept crying. He even said that I would rather go back to four years old when everything was fine.
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We have all had this experience before. After we are familiar with one place, it is difficult to go to a new place and start again. After we have formed a certain lasting cognitive view of certain things, it is difficult to change this view. Because we are afraid of any kind of change and of any unknown.
And a person has been imprisoned for a long time without freedom, and his worldview is restricted. He is also full of fear about freedom and the world, just like the old Booker in "Shawshank's Salvation". He spent half his life in Shawshank prison, but when he was about to die. Released. Facing the bizarre society at the time, Old Booker couldn't integrate into it anyway, and finally had to hang himself on the beam of the apartment, leaving a sad sentence: Old Booker is here for a visit.
In the early years, when I watched "The World of Trumen", I always felt that I was still not enough. I would imagine what would happen when Trumen faced a new world. After this man with a flawed worldview entered a broader and more unknown world, Many collisions and tears are bound to occur.
This collision and tearing were revealed in Jack mother and son.
Little Jack never walked out of the room, never smelled the scent of flowers, didn’t know the leaves were real, didn’t know the concept of streets, cars and crowds, when Jack jumped out of Nick’s pickup truck according to the escape method taught by his mother. When he ran on the street, the whole state was shocked and terrified. For the first time he saw such a vast blue sky and saw so many living people for the first time. The world was like a huge tsunami facing Jack. Coming over, facing the police who came to ask about the situation, he couldn't even say a word.
When the mother and son were finally rescued, the old Nick went to jail, his body got rid of the prison of the room, and how to get rid of the invisible prison of the soul has just begun, and it is even more difficult to get out of the invisible prison of the soul, which arises from disasters. His fears and diaphragm should always seem to linger.
As shown in the movie, in the eyes of the media, family members, neighbors or friends, this mother and child are always the objects that need special care. When they face the mother and child, their cautious and cautious expressions are exactly the same. A different kind of information transmission, every soft-spoken wording, every sincere expression of compassion or encouragement, all emphasize that you have been poor people who have had such a miserable experience. The old father even confessed that he would no longer be able to face his daughter and this grandson who descended from the sky like before.
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Fortunately, Jack is only a five-year-old boy. His knowledge of the world has not been rigidized. He has human curiosity and is also more meaningless than adults. With the help of his grandmother and his family, Jack gradually I have integrated into society and found my own friends.
For mothers who have suffered long-term physical and psychological abuse, this kind of spiritual reconstruction and reintegration into society has become increasingly difficult. She often feels dazed and depressed, loses her temper inexplicably with her family, and even thinks of suicide. When Jack found his mother who had attempted suicide in the bathroom, he cried heartbreakingly.
Grandma said: "We are all helping each other to make each other strong, no one can be strong alone." Jack was once the hope for her mother to live strong in the "room", and later was the biggest motivation for her mother to re-accept the past. For her mother, Jack is the son of herself and the kidnappers. He is a mixture of love and hatred. This kind of complex feelings will accompany her all her life with Jack. She must try to accept them. Only accept all of them first. It is possible to really let go.
Jack kept talking about going back to the room. For him, it was the original home, with warm memories, everything he liked, and there, his mother was always by his side. At first, my mother always disagreed, even disgusted, but finally agreed. The child returned to the room. He gently touched everything in the room with his hands, and said goodbye to the sink, potted plants, wardrobe, and skylight that had been with him day and night.
Jack said to his mother: "Mom, you can say goodbye to the room, too." Mom looked at the room, and when she went out, she said softly: Goodbye, room.
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"Room" is a movie that covers a lot of content, about freedom, about worldview, about maternal love, about society, and about the reconstruction of the soul. From the perspective of a child, in the full and dramatic story, the film has a lot of poetic narration to construct a film world that reaches the soul. The touch we get from it is not a single line, but a deeper and more complex emotion.
Jack said in the narration in the film: Mom and I made a decision, because we don’t know what we like, so we try everything. There are so many things in this world, and sometimes it’s scary, but that’s okay. , Because it's still you and me together.
Because we have people around us, we help each other and strengthen each other, no matter what kind of world we face, we can go on.
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