My love for books again has brought me the opportunity to see a film of a novel I have recently read. I could not put the book down; luckily it was over a weekend when I started reading! Lenny Abrahamson has brought to life the heart throbbing novel by Emma Donoghue with many talented actors and a real life story of a mothers struggle to gain back a live worth living and manage a young Jack with all the wonders in the world. Room is an incredible film with a real testimony of the strength of family and will power, still with some language and suspenseful story line the film is recommended for viewers 17 and older.
In a world as confusing as Earth, five-year-old Jack (Jacob Tremblay) only knows what little piece that 10x10 ft. Room holds of the world. He was born there, him and Ma (Brie Larson) live everyday inside of room playing, eating, sleeping in bed and watching T.V. until the clock strikes 9pm, when Old Nick comes to visit and Jack goes to sleep in Wardrobe. While Jack thinks Room is home, Ma is a prisoner to Room and wishes to find her way back to her old home with the hammock in the back yard. I felt the sorrow Ma was trying to swallow every time she looked at young Jack and only wished for him to know anything different than Room.
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While your heart is breaking and beating for the hope that Jack and Ma will find a way to be free from Room and the depression that holds Ma on days when she is “gone”, you can feel a smile on your face whenever Jack is playing carefree or the way he has a name for everything in Room. Jack is a lively boy who imagines everything in wide view, trying to explain the world to him without the whole picture. Watching Jack pieces together the world under his narration, you can see through the real mind of a curious young