Room (2015)
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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Do not waste your time watching this!!! Do not waste your time watching this!!!
The synopsis doesn't give much about the movie, so I watched the story as it happens. The more I understand what's happening, the more emotions flows. This is a several acts play, and each act is very powerful. Human beings in a harsh world. I often shed a tear during a movie, but this is the first time that it keeps going for a long time after the movie ended.
Once again I am stimulated to review a movie based on what I cannot see, namely, the movie. This movie takes place in a town where, apparently, electricity and the electric light have not yet been discovered and are unknown. Worse yet, the cinematographer, director, editors, etc.etc. seem to be from this same town. Where the scenes are not black, they are so dark one cannot see anything. I wonder again why they bother with set designers, costumers, makeup or anything similar (things listed in the credits) when they can't be bothered to show any of it to the audience. I get the concept of darkness in the shed, but why the darkness anywhere else. One can show confinement and oppression yet allow the audience to see what is going on. Of course that's theory on my part. Maybe the producers and directors were so low budget they were embarrassed by sets and costumes and "painted it black" to hide them. The script is ok I guess, but this is supposed to be a movie, a visual art. If you can't see a visual art there is no point to it. There is no point to this.
In the real world, our world at this day and time, when children and young women are found after years of captivity, I found this movie to be very realistic and all of the actors did an amazing job, especially the mother and son. I found this to be a very emotional movie and I found myself holding back tears at times throughout. I would consider this a Must See Movie, although I don't have a desire to watch it again.