The Emotional Journey Of Joy And Jack

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2017)

The Academy Award gave the Best Actress Oscar to Brie Larson in this film about a young woman Joy who was imprisoned in a certain shed together with her five-year-old son Jack who was born in captivity by an old man entitled "Room".No question that many critics and viewers alike found it to be a wonderful film.Director Lenny Abrahamson provides an emotional journey of Joy as well as Jack and how she managed to use her intelligence,imagination and creativity to relieve herself of their situation especially in bringing up her son Jack inside the shed and how they cope and adapt to the outside world after being in captivity for many years.Jacob Tremblay,Joan Allen,Sean Bridgers and William H. Macy also stars in it.
No question that it was touching movie during the first part of the film.We get to see how Joy to remedy their situation with the use of their imagination especially when Joy teaches many things about the world to Jack.Things become extremely difficult especially as Jack gets old and shows above average intelligence.At the beginning of the movie,we see the pain and suffering she has to go through as well as her determination to survive despite their situation.Being an overprotective mother,she also tries to satisfy sexually her captor Old Nick in exchange for their various items for her son. Luckily,they were able to remedy their situation and found a way to escape.
While the movie was compelling the first part, the second part somehow fell short as it wasn't as interesting unlike when Joy and Jack were kept in the shed.When Joy reunited with her parents, I felt that the screenplay focused too on the emotional mother-and-daughter relationship between Joy and Jack and losing sight somewhat on the progress of the story as many issues were left for the audience to think about and discuss among themselves.That includes difficulties they are about to face upon adapting to the outside world after many years of captivity;how Joy's father is going to accept Jack knowing that it was fathered by Old Nick;how Joy is going to go on with her new life as woman in her 20's;and the difficulties Jack as a child is trying face to adapt to his "new world" outside the shed.It would have been a masterpiece if not too many questions were left for the audience to answer and some issues were explored further for the continuation of the story.They could have at least shown a character development in both Joy and Jack from inside to outside the shed.
Overall,Room was worth the price of admission despite the progress of the story was lacking in the second part after the escape.Both Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay captured the mother-and-daughter relationship perfectly.No question that Brie Larson deserved to win the Best Actress Oscar as the viewer will definitely empathize with her character Joy.Jacob Tremblay developed a wonderful chemistry with Larson although he could be annoying at times.He also showed strength emotionally to her mom especially in times of emotional pain and difficulties outside the shed.Their performances for me was so great that it somehow made me gave it the highest rating despite the second part.Finally,the viewers will definitely be touched with this movie experience especially for women around the world as the theme of motherhood was fully explored especially even in the most difficult and adverse circumstances.