The first half of the story is rich and fascinating, especially the part where Jake pretended to be dead and escaped from captivity. It was really exciting. I couldn't help but sweat for him, for fear that he would be found before jumping out of the car, and afraid that he would not find anyone when he jumped out of the car. The second half shows how the mother and son who escaped from imprisonment face a new life. Many people in this part feel that the power is not enough, and the plot is a bit messy. I thought so the first time I watched it, but after I sorted it out the second time, I felt that the film’s psychological portrayal of the mother and son was really in place, and the differences in the psychological changes between the two are more worthy of reflection.
First of all, we have to understand that leaving that small shed means completely different for two people. For the mother, it was an escape, escaped from seven years of painful imprisonment, and returned to the world where she originally lived. For Jack, this is a new world adventure, a thrilling discovery. In his simple worldview, outside the room, above the skylight is the world of television, and above the world of television is heaven. He left the room, just to go to the higher level world that he had never seen before, but had longed for countless times.
Precisely because of this difference, the mental state of the two facing the new life is completely different. At the beginning of the escape, Jack faced new things. Although he had fears and doubts, he was more of a surprise. All he had to do was to gradually become familiar with new things, accept new things, and adapt to this better world. For Joy, the world is not simply better, she has to endure far more complicated than the new things in the eyes of children, that is the change of life, the collapse of life. It is far more difficult to endure this kind of change than to adapt to new things for children in the plastic stage.
When she was imprisoned in a small shack, there were only her and her son in the world. Jack was her only spiritual sustenance and source of strength. Her whole body and mind were occupied by maternal love. The child was everything to her. All actions are for the children. Inspired by this kind of maternal love, she became a strong and competent mother, working hard to maintain the child's innocent heart. But when she left the imprisonment and returned to the world full of infinite possibilities and hope, she no longer had to face her children only, her attention had to turn to her own life, and her desires also So it becomes more complicated than escaping from that small shack.
In the hospital, Joy rejected the doctor's recommendation to stay in the hospital for evaluation. She said she really wanted to go home. But the "going home" here actually contains far more expectations than going home. Not only does she want to return to the family of her father and mother, but she also wants to return to her original life when she was seventeen, youthful, romantic, carefree, and accepting the love of her parents. When she reunited with her parents in the hospital and felt the joy of returning to this world, this kind of desire arose in her subconscious mind. She just walked into a room, stayed in it for a long time, and walked out. It seems that after a lifetime, but did not really feel that change.
But this desire of her was destined to be unfulfilled, and when she returned home, everything went wrong. She will never go back to the home where she can eat ice cream in a hammock. Her parents are divorced and live in different places. She turned out the photos of her school days and realized how far she had deviated from the normal trajectory of life, and how unbearable her destiny was. She changed from a seventeen-year-old girl to a five-year-old mother. The friends lived their original lives and nothing happened.
In the small shack, all her beliefs in the world depend on Jack. And when the door was opened, the room was no longer a room, and her original belief in the world no longer existed. Under the reflection of reality and others, she felt strongly that her life was ruined and her world was distorted and collapsed. She asked her father to face Jack, but in fact, she asked her father to face himself and accept himself. She quarreled with her mother and accepted interviews. In fact, she was seeking a breakthrough in her inner grief and anger, hoping to receive attention and comfort.
As Jack saw from the child’s perspective,
"Mom was eager to rush to heaven, but she forgot about me, so the aliens threw her down."
She fell into a serious self-centered psychological dilemma. The consciousness of her own life being ruined completely occupied her heart. She has forgotten that she still has a great responsibility as a mother, and she has forgotten that Jack can still be her hope. Therefore, in such a long imprisonment process, for Jack, she was able to gain the strength to survive. But when she was out of prison, she had the heart to abandon Jack and chose to commit suicide.
From the age of seventeen to twenty-four, from a young girl to a mother, there was only one room in between. The cruelty of this kind of life is unimaginable. To some extent, Joy is actually only seventeen years old. In front of the real world, she was beaten back to her original form.
And in the end, only Jack can save Joy. Just as he gave her the strength to live in the room, he also had to rescue her in the real world. He told her to return to his side with a strong tone on the phone, and he sent his hair to his mother. When Joy said she was an incompetent mother, he told Joy: But you are a mother. Jack took his mother back to the room and asked her to say goodbye to everything in the room like him.
All of what Jack did made Joy no longer evade and re-realized his responsibilities as a mother. Jack became her hope and strength again. She was finally able to face reality and accept this completely changed life.
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