"The Room": Real Human Feelings, Rebirth in Equality

Alysha 2022-03-24 09:01:15

The title is simple, but full of temptation. The "room" has too many associations, ambiguous, horrible, suspenseful, psychological, and literary. I didn't expect it to be such a case and such a crime. Like those films where crime and victim rebirth are both important, "Room" uses the upper half to talk about escape and the second half about rebirth. The difficulty of rebirth overwhelms escape. This is the common path of many similar films, and the uniqueness of "Room" to stand out from the crowd.

For the Chinese, this case is both unfamiliar and familiar. The unfamiliar thing is that in our country, we have never faced this kind of imprisonment directly, imprisoning a person in a secret room (although there is a skylight) for six or seven years, violent , Give birth to the child, the child continues to live in the secret room. Familiar things, how similar this kind of case is to the abduction and trafficking of women in backward rural areas for a long time, the same deception, imprisonment, and isolation from all contact with the outside world, generation after generation, generation after generation cannot get rid of it. We also often see similar news on the Internet. Whether it is true or not, there are too many jokings, and few people take it seriously.

Now that the film "The Room" puts such a case in front of us seriously, we began to take the same serious attitude. We were moved by it, hurt by its cold, and the reporters in the film were still swarming outside the victim's home. , I can’t help but blame the director and screenwriter for not knowing how to judge the situation. They should be like South Korea’s "Sowon". It's just that the power of others is fair (at least in the film), but the people are not considerate enough.

The same hatred of enemies like South Korean movies can be seen as having the shadow of North Korea in it, because it is too deliberate. In fact, it’s the coolest. No matter how much you’ve experienced, everything around you remains the same. No one will be worried about your departure for long. Even your parents can still continue their lives and still feel life. In the beauty. After many years, you came back and found that everyone is living well according to their own trajectory. The only difference is you. The world in your mind only stays at the moment when the misfortune happened. It has been far behind by reality, huge. The estrangement is created, and everything can't be returned. As a result, low self-esteem, unfamiliarity, fear, and resentment all began to breed.

But what is public power in front of these? No matter how fair the trial is, it will only end the past crimes in the legal sense, and will be helpless against the crimes that stay in the heart, and it will not help how to create the future. This movie is real. It is so fierce and natural that it points out this point. Han Ying’s fake intent is more prominent in front of it. At this time, we will find that the chill it brings is more infiltrating than Han Ying. The screams are even more frightening.


And this movie is no less touching than Han Ying, who is under the same enemy, and this moving comes from a novel perspective. Under ordinary people's perception, the mother and son would hate the "room" that once imprisoned them, and everyone around them should do the same. This recognition is in the same line as the Koreans and comes from the same culture. And this movie allows us to see another situation, if the mother's behavior is not obvious, it can't be more obvious to the child. It is reasonable to want to come, but the mother's suffering is not so for the child. The child is born in a cage and grows longer than a cage, just like a bird born in a cage. When the door of the cage is opened, it does not fly away, but its wings are broken without knowing it. On the contrary, it is infinitely nostalgic for the cage. Seeing the rescued children from the initial desire to return to the "room" to the final farewell to the things in the "room", I felt a bit of chill, and people and animals really came down in the same line.

And the process from attachment to farewell is immersed in warm love. The people around you are waiting and caring for them quietly. This kind and continuous love, in the subtle details, is respecting and accepting. We haven't seen Han Yingzhong's heartbreaking crying. The most touching thing about the parent-child relationship in European and American movies is this complete equality. No one felt that they were weak, they were just injured. And the victim’s daughter, the current mother, when her father refused to accept the child she had with the criminal, her reaction was a self-defense counterattack from a person whose self-esteem was humiliated. If it were in Korean movies or in Chinese movies, we might only I can see a woman whose chin's eyes are gradually lowered. She feels low self-esteem, and it is only natural that she and her children are not accepted.

I like this equality. Because of this equality, the world is still beautiful in the eyes of the victimized mother and child. Even if the child is nostalgic for the familiar cage at first, he gradually looks up to the sky, playing with his neighbors, and enjoying the experience with his mother. In the process of eating fast food, I gradually opened my heart, established a normal worldview, accepted and liked the freedom and openness that a person was born with. The same is true for mothers. It is this equality that provides a stress-free and interference-free environment for their rebirth.

The true and delicate portrayal of the children's heart allows us to see deeper and more subtle human emotions. The touching innocence makes us feel precious, but at the same time, the hidden chill is even more terrifying.


Goodbye, skylight, from then on I have a broader world! May the world be less sinful and more pure.

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Room quotes

  • Old Nick: What's that smell?

    Ma: Sorry, I burned some cheese. Here. I just wasn't thinking.

    Old Nick: Well, thinking is not your strong suit.

  • Ma: [about the mouse] He's on the other side of this wall.

    Jack: What other side?

    Ma: Jack, there's two sides to everything.

    Jack: Not on an octagon.

    Ma: Yeah, but...

    Jack: [Interrupts] An octagon has eight sides

    Ma: But a wall, okay, a wall's like this, see? And we're on the inside and mouse is on the outside.

    Jack: In outer space?

    Ma: No, in the world. It's much closer than outer space.

    Jack: I can't see the outside-side.

    Ma: Listen, I know that I told you something else before, but you were much younger. I didn't think that you could understand, but now you're so old, you're so smart. I know that you can get this. Where do you think that old Nick gets our food?

    Jack: From TV by magic!