The film Room is a study on adaptation and survival under tragic circumstances. Our protagonists Ma, played by Brie Larson, and jack, Jacob Tremblay, reeducates the viewer on how to manage and make the most out of the ultimate kind of prison, utter seclution.
In part Room is a space, a time setting that both alienates and ironacally shelters. In this case in particular, it is the only place known to jack since birth: his whole universe is the confinement of Room.
The viewer quickly understands the survival mechanism that takes place here, and it's Ma who successfully shelters jack from knowning any better, in this case, their horrible reality.
The film also addresses the psychological toll that takes place from its aftermath. It's by all means a thorough film that gives us a struggle, a means to overcome it, a triumph, a life after, and a readaptation process.
Room powerfully comes full circle, when jack having a heart to heart conversation with his gramma, Joan Allen, reveals that Room was happiness for him: a moving scene played by both actors.
Room not only presents us with such nostalgic situation and understanding from jack's perspective, but it questions our own assumption of what was best for both characters: reporter asking Ma how come she didn't send jack away before? Why she opted on rejecting the "ultimate sacrifice" as a mother? Not only these questions brutally demolish Ma, but it also enlighten the viewer on the lingering option that at that point the spectator never thought of: isn't the best place of a child at his/her mother's side?
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