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Goodbye, room!
Rhett 2022-04-21 09:01:16
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Michele 2022-03-25 09:01:05
The People of Toronto Tears Award. Room is a prison. The mother and the son have been escaping. The first half is physical escape, and the second half is psychological escape. The gimmick and eyeballs in the first half are wonderful enough, and the mother and son cry incomparably when they hug the outside world for the first time. But afterwards, the handling of the psychological change was a bit soft, and I felt that I had restrained the sensationalism, but trying to describe the subtle psychological change from the perspective of a child seemed too difficult to handle well.
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Catalina 2022-03-21 09:01:13
What surprises me is that the movie does not stop at explaining how to "escape the room", but also focuses on how to construct a new world for children after escaping from the room. "Has the room shrunk?" the child asked. No, it's just that your world has become bigger. "The room with the open door is no longer a room." "Do you want to close the door?" "No." Child, since the new world has opened to you, say goodbye to the old room.
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Ma: You're five and you're old enough to understand what the world there is. You have to understand. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND. We can't keep living like this. You need to help me.
Jack: I wanna be four again.
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Ma: [finds a photo of her relay race team] You know who that is?
Jack: This? That's you.
Ma: Yeah, that's me. And Stacy Benton and Heather Noel and Laura Sullivan. We were on a relay team. I was the anchor. I was really fast. We did track.
Jack: Real track?
Ma: Mmm-hmm. On a field.
[long pause]
Ma: You know what happened to them?
Jack: No.
Ma: Exactly.
[puts the photo down and tries to busy herself]
Ma: Nothing. They just lived their life and nothing happened.