Gripping

Rating: 8/10 (31 January 2016)

Brie Larson is Joy, a 24 year-old mother who has been abducted and held captive in a room for seven years. Her son Jack(Jacob Tremblay, with a stunningly believable performance) share the screen together for a long stretch and are absolutely riveting in this heart breaking film. Joy has somehow been able to teach Jack to read and expanded his vocabulary to a high level while trapped in hell. Through sheer willpower they eventually exchange one form of emotional torture for another. The story does not go the way I expected it to, and this is not a criticism. Life is not a bowl of cherries with everything working out in the end. Room is a realistic view of the world carried with two outstanding leads in Larson and Tremblay. One of the ten best movies of 2015.