room and world

Pearlie 2022-04-23 07:01:14

This is a movie that will doubt the world after watching it, but will have a new or deeper understanding of the world.

If "Three-Body Problem" reshuffles our understanding from the scope of the universe, and "Truman's World" gives us thinking from the scope of the world, then this movie uses a small room to break our inherent concept.

After watching the movie at 11:30 in the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep for a long time after lying down, and I couldn't understand the view of a child who lived in a closed space from birth to 4 years old. For him, his world is this small The room, the outside world is to him like the universe is to us, vast and boundless. I also thought of the sentence in "The Three-Body Problem", we think that the world we live in is huge, and in front of the vast universe, it is just as insignificant as a speck of dust.

I think the success of the film is that it not only filmed how the two lived in the room, but also showed the great changes in life and the adaptability of the body and mind after the two left the room. I originally thought that the child would collapse, but I didn't expect that the mother who was more familiar with the outside world almost couldn't make it. I suddenly remembered that when I was in Canada, the teacher in charge of the International Department told us, don’t think that you will not get used to it until you come here from your own country. When you finish your life here and return to your home country, you will Experience a reverse cultural shock. At first I thought it was incredible, but after I experienced it, I realized that it was true.

At the end of the movie, the mother said to Jack in tears, I am not a good mother, Jack replied, but when you are a mother, you have to lament the success of this mother's education and that the child may be far stronger and greater than we imagined.

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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!