No 'Room' For Improvement

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2016)

Every now and then a film will not only effect me emotionally but effect me on how powerful I view and feel the medium of film itself is, Room is one of these films in question, it's just phenomenal and I'm not an individual who gives out fake praise in order to gain views/notoriety.
Like me you may have (or did have) preconceptions of what this film would do with its subject material & how it would progress, now throw those preconceptions out the window & glory at what this film has to offer you on a purely human level of storytelling.
Now I'm going to begin this review in earnest by stating that yes this film created a truly unexpected emotional reaction from me and despite the premise of the story I also came out the cinema saying that the film gave me a sense of great hope and was uplifting in how individuals/characters can positively react to horrible situations in a completely human and believable way.
The story focuses on Brie Larson's 'Ma' character who is a mum to her five year old son 'Jack' played by newcomer Jacob Tremblay who have been imprisoned in a 'Room' for going on five years since Brie Larson had been kidnapped & presumably raped (resulting in Jack) by her captor by her unknown (to the audience) assailant.
Brie Larson deservedly won the Best Actress award all across the board with a truly powerfully gut-wrenching and emotional performance, now the performance of then eight year old Jacob Tremblay is something nothing short of phenomenal, the interaction between Larson and Tremblay is mainly where the films storytelling and emotional heft comes from, if you don't believe that mother and son relationship you don't get the truly fantastic film that we end up with.
The film plays with your expectations of what this kind of film is expected to do and how it should play out and midway through it it throws you a curve-ball, they actually escape, yes that's right that is what would usually occur in the final act of a film of this type but no now we have to deal with what occurs from the fallout of this situation, suddenly it takes you somewhere you don't get led very often which is what happens next after that kind of event, what is the personal trauma that is taken on by Brie Larson's 'Ma' and Jacob Tremblay's 'Jack' characters? Who has coped best with it? Who is going to cope best with their reintroduction into society (if that's even possible), it's wonderfully done from a psychological point of view and also a pure emotional drama point of view, the reintroduction to family, a family that has been torn apart by the apparent loss of their presumed dead daughter.
True credit has to go to the director Lenny Abrahamson and probably more poignantly Emma Donoghue the original novels writer and screenplay writer for the film, she and the director have clearly managed to translate her books tones and emotional message into the medium of film which is no mean feat at all.
Numerous times throughout his film I was either close to tears or had a tear or two actual roll down my cheeks and for good reason as they were heartbreaking moments of interactions between Jack and certain individuals.
The film is a true triumph of fabulous storytelling, superb performances, emotional heft and a film of the utmost highest quality and is now in the company of being listed as one of my favorite ever films and I can give it no more higher a praise than that.