"When the door is opened, it is not a room." Open the door of your heart, and pain and hurt will no longer be trapped in that dark, narrow prison.

Christiana 2022-04-20 09:01:11

The first half is particularly touching. A mother who was imprisoned and tortured, raised her son with love and patience in order to survive for herself and her son. Poor boy, his voice is immature, he has never seen the outside world, he thinks that the tightly closed space is the whole world, that long dragon pierced by egg shells, and the maze made of cardboard are the only toys for children, birthday Candles have become a luxury I have never seen before, and I turned off the screen a few times and couldn't bear to watch it. The boy was terrified by training to escape, and when he was finally able to roll up the rug with his body and say "it worked" while saying "I hate you". Tears at that moment. In the second half, the mother and son, who were freed from their physical imprisonment, needed to be released from their psychological imprisonment. When going from a single dim place to a colorful, bright and real life, facing the new life that is no longer familiar and neglected, it is really difficult for my mother to get out of the shadows. As a reader, I can fully sympathize with the feeling: I was helpless and helpless in the original captivity, because of the instinct of survival, I insisted on living; on the contrary, after gaining freedom, my heart was extremely conflicted and anxious, including some unbelievable reality, including In order to release the original inner most broken pain, that kind of psychological complex interweaving. (This is difficult to perform, and you can only rely on the readers to empathize, so this is also the reason why the second half is slightly inferior to the first half).

The second half is particularly touching. The boy cuts his hair to his mother. That is his courage and strength in the past five years. It is also the most beautiful fairy tale compiled by his mother for his son. Save Mom"!

In the end, the mother and son finally faced the source of the most pain and said goodbye to the pain one by one. The boy said, "When the door is opened, it is not a room." Indeed, when the door of the heart is opened, the pain and hurt will no longer be trapped in that dark and narrow prison.

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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!