The film is based on Emma Donahue's novel of the same name. Imprisonment is not uncommon in the real world. It is often seen in newspapers, so it is often used as the subject of some thrillers. The imprisoned people are often psychopaths and have a strong possessiveness. and sadistic desires. "Room" is not a thriller. There are not many scenes of the prisoner "Old Nick". He is only used as a tool for the mother and son to escape from the shack. His performance is not fierce and abnormal enough. It may be just a mentally unsound Lu She, so the escape of mother and son was not as difficult as expected, and a little trick was successful.
Just looking at the first part of the film, I feel that it should be an experimental film with two characters in a closed space. This kind of film often pops up one or two, especially in recent years. This kind of film can be divided into two types, one is an absolutely closed space, such as the classic "Twelve Angry Men", where twelve people discuss guilt and innocence, and the two-person dialogue in "Footprints", and the later "Twelve Angry Men" Sunset Train is also two people chatting in a room, and even more so, like Lionsgate's Buried Alive, its cramped space is unbearable, and Ryan Reynolds gives a wonderful one-man show , and Tang Laoshi in "Rock" simply drove his BMW from the beginning to the end of the film. The car is also a closed space, but it can only move. The other is not an absolute closed space, but it is better than an enclosed space, because the protagonist (usually no more than two people) can only move within a certain range, just like the circle that Sun Monkey gave to the master, and the better one is Colin? "Sniper Phone Booth" starring Farrell, the whole story revolves around the phone booth. Although the scene is single, the danger in it can be described as moving. In fact, the concept of closure can also be extended outward, because the universe is infinite, and any individual that can be seen is within the universe, that is, within a closed space, and the calculation is endless. There must be a limit, that is, the singleness of the scene. A common single scene is not only an absolutely enclosed space, but also a vast sea and vast space, so most movies that take place at sea and space should be included, such as "Striking from the Bottom of the Sea", "Everything's Lost", "Moon" and The Martian, etc.
It is precisely because there are countless works in closed spaces, and often there are no shortage of classics, so latecomers inevitably fall into the clichés, and it is difficult to make breakthroughs. If the shots of "Room" stay in the shack, it will probably fall into the repetition of failure plus the last successful routine, and a simple tin hut can't waste brain cells to study the escape plan, so "Room" chose Open that door.
After being imprisoned in a small room for seven years, the mother and son were finally rescued and returned to their normal lives, just as if the frame of "Mummy" was stretched open and the field of vision suddenly widened, or Ryan Reynolds of "Buried Alive" Here, climb out of the pit of death, just as the man in Shimmering City sees the sunrise for the first time, or Kusturica makes the man in Underground dodge the war back to the surface, in a place called The place of heaven continues to live.
But the life of the mother and son after being rescued in the film is not as moving as imagined, but rather difficult to adapt to. It is not as lively and interesting as the small room. Every thing in the small room is given life by Jack, and they have their own functions. His mother is all Jack's. For seven years, he and his mother have not been separated from each other, and they are interdependent. On the surface, they are imprisoned, but in Jack's eyes, their lives are colorful. However, the outside world is too wonderful, a little too much, which is completely beyond Jack's understanding. There are so many new things that are like the stars in the sky, and it is impossible to count them. Jack has a feeling of being lost, while his mother is Really lost, she is no longer inseparable from him, she has become a little strange, she is sick.
Jack misses his small room so much, because the small room is very warm, everything is under his control, and the real world is like a bigger room, there are too many things, too many faces, between people As if estranged, the intimacy between him and his mother was about to dissipate. This is very scary, what Jack thinks, just like the people in Peach Blossom Spring told Wuling people that they are not human, they don't want the disputes outside to destroy the peace of Peach Blossom Spring, it's like 1900 who walked on the boat ladder and returned to the cabin , the fear of land made him decide to stay afloat forever.
In fact, Jack can't go back, he has to get out of the small room and live like so many other people in the big room, that wonderful little room like an old friend's that can only stay in memory and become a kind of yearning.
"But it doesn't matter, because you and I are still together," Jack said.
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