stripped of the melodrama that hurts most films

Rating: 9/10 (22 March 2017)

Another very original movie with a familiar story plot, but concentrates more on the effects of the trauma on the human psyche then any kind of clichÃ©d melodrama. Most movies wouldn't dare to delve as deep as Room does into the effect that a horrifying event can have on a family and the tough choices that people must make which aren't choices at all, but the brutality of life. These two main characters, played brilliantly and unglamorously by Brie Larson and Jacob Trembley, never had a chance at a normal life.