Facts have proved that this year is really a small year for Oscars, and most of the selected films have no surprises. Of course, those films are not bad films, but the problem is that they all reveal the beginning. You can guess the mediocre smell of all directions. This state of being so correct and flawless is a bit boring. Among several popular movies, this "Room" seems to be slightly different. Compared with the clichéd narrative of the country and historical grand background in "Bridge of Spy", this movie is closer to the "personal".
Most people can see through this setting at the beginning: the story of how a pair of imprisoned mother and child broke free from the shackles and returned to the world. The difference is that the imprisoned boy has never seen the outside world. He has spent the short five or six years of his life in this small house of several square meters. The only contact with the outside world is a small skylight on the roof and a TV with poor signal. This is the interesting part. For this boy, this room is the whole world. What he sees on TV is something that he thinks belongs only to TV and is fictitious. Only he can touch it in the room. What is all true. Therefore, compared to the mother's despair, the child feels that everything is okay and has always been at peace.
My mother was kidnapped on the way to school a few years ago. She was imprisoned here and couldn't escape. She was forced to give birth to a child with the kidnapper. It was not until the child was a little sensible that she seemed to be able to escape here with the help of the child. She trained her son to pretend to be sick and dead, so that the man who kidnapped her could take the boy's "corpse" out and look for the possibility of asking for help. This is not a horror or suspense genre. Therefore, even if there is a tense atmosphere, the film's inking is not to exaggerate these, but to explore the definition of freedom and imprisonment in a person's heart.
The boy never knew that the leaves were real, nor did he know the concept of streets, cars and people, and lacked the experience of interacting with humans. Therefore, when he recited the method taught by his mother, he jumped off the pickup and walked on the street. When I ran up, I was basically in shock. A person who has adapted to imprisonment has a fear of freedom. This is not a fiction. It has been proved in reality that people from a small country fled to another country for special reasons, originally thinking that they should enjoy a normal life from now on, but found that the suicide rate of that group remains high. This is really sad.
If the first half of the movie is about how to escape from the tangible imprisonment, then the second half is about how to escape from the invisible and spiritual imprisonment and enter true freedom. The latter is more difficult.
Most people mistakenly believe that when the body is rescued from the cage, everything will go smoothly. It seems that some have been properly resolved, but in fact, only the person involved knows that the deeper imprisonment is the closure of the heart, and The lingering fear and separation. As shown in the movie, regardless of the media, family members, and neighbors, the mother and child are regarded as a kind of "object of viewing" or "object of care". "Ignore", when will they be truly free. And more importantly, when can they calmly examine their own experience, admit it, and treat it only as a past, rather than an obstacle.
The boy became the most important turning point. He was more fearless than an adult. Even though he experienced maladjustment at first, he will soon be able to integrate into society better. What's more ingenious is that the child saves the mother inadvertently. He kept talking about going back to the imprisoned room. For the child, it was the former home with a warm memory. Even if it sounds cruel, it is so to him, and his mother’s Attitudes go from initially blocking, disgusting to finally agreeing. The child returned to the chaotic place and said goodbye to the chair, sink, and wardrobe, just like the beginning of the film. The child said hello to everything in the room every morning, when the child waved goodbye to the past in a childish way. , The mother on the side also really got out of the inner cage.
For the mother, the boy’s identity has become a metaphor in itself. He is the kidnapper and his own son. He is mixed with half love and half hatred, and he will accompany her throughout her life. She must learn to accept All this, the past suffering is unavoidable, just like the child in front of us, but we need to have the ability to liberate ourselves. Others can only imprison us tangibly from the outside, and only we can understand how to remove the shackles of our hearts. The imprisoned person is to destroy others, but even if we touch the cage, we still do not lose the ability to define freedom. This in itself is a kind of resistance and victory.
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