Analysis Of The Movie Room

The movie Room is an adaptation of the novel written by an Irish-Canadian author. Emma Donoghue wrote the novel in 2010, and it won the CommonWealth Writers Prize in 2011. The movie was made in 2015, it was directed by the genius Lenny Abrahamson who managed to adapt the novel excellently, and filmed the whole movie just like the novel was written from a little boy’s point of view. The film stars the actor Brie Larson in the role of Ma, and Jacob Tremblay in the role of the little child Jack, whom the novel was written to explain his perspective of the story.

Room tells the story of five year old Jack. He is very smart, spirited and is deeply loved by his devoted mother, whose name is Joy. Ma as he calls her, gives him the love and care he needs, his life is full of warmth and his mother tries to keep him safe from any harm. However their life is does not follow the typical mother-son daily routine. Ma and Jack are living in a 10 by 10 room, which is a shed in the house of someone she calls “Old Nick”. Ma names this place Room and Jack thinks that this is the world and there is nothing outside of this small space. Ma has made this room Jack’s whole

She is also a subject of her father’s immature and oppressive treatment after finding out what she has been through the last seven years. He cannot imagine his seventeen year old daughter being raped every night and he also could not stand to look at her son, thus he chooses to not deal with the situation. Joy also has to deal with her, and Jacks post-traumatic stress, and has to face the idea that maybe she was not a good enough mother for keeping Jack with her and not trying to set him free these past few years. In consequence she tries to commit suicide yet she fails, and is put in a Post Traumatic rehabilitation center. Eventually Joy manages to get better and starts to try and live a normal life with her young son