Room

Fascinating and Exhilarating

Room has been nominated for four Oscars this year, Picture, Director, Leading Lady and Adapted Screenplay.

An interesting aspect, dealt in Shawshank Redemption, was that prolonged incarceration could 'institutionalize' people. 'Institutionalized' people who had served a long jail sentence and released after serving their sentence would find it difficult to live a normal life in the world outside. In a way they would have got adjusted to the place or the institution(jail) where they had served the sentence. After being set free, the person released could go to the extent of committing suicide.

Room deals with this aspect and then goes ahead to explore how empathy can actually help people get back on the rails.

Room also deals with innocence in a way that has not been dealt with in a long time.

It is also fascinating to see the protagonist oscillate between strength and vulnerability. 

Spaces of quiet punctuated by surge of frustration and anger, is enhanced by rock solid performances.

The cinematography choreographs its way to create poetry in motion.

As the curtain draws down, the kid Jack pays a visit to the Room. He observes, after visiting the closed room which is now open bereft of its belongings, that the closed room seemed to be a lot bigger than the now open room.

Space also seems to be a constraint of the mind!!!!

Lovers of Cinema, may want to catch a piece of this poetry in motion, ideally soak in it on a relaxed evening.