amazingly directed, written, and acted

Rating: 10/10 (20 August 2018)

This movie had me feeling whatever the characters felt the entire time. No matter if it was a sad, funny, happy, or anxious scene, I felt as if I was living in the moment and truly enduring what the people were going through, especially the five year old son.
The movie is basically in the perspective of the five year old who is the son of the woman who was kidnapped and the captor. In almost every scene, if not all of them, the five year old boy was in it. The only time the viewers left room or any other location in the realm of the film, the child was as well. For example, we never left "room" until the son did and we never saw anything past what he was seeing.
A lot of films have hard times staying in the perspective of one character, but this one beautifully captured the little boy's thoughts, actions, and emotions.
A lot of people are talking about how the film makers could have branched out onto the backstory of the captor and the woman who was kidnapped, what took place seven years prior, and much other various things that are involved with kidnapping. But, in my opinion, that all would have ruined the movie because it would have taken us out of the five year old's perspective and thoughts. If he never saw something, we did not either. The five year old did not have an understanding of the world for most of the movie and he did not understand his situation in "room." Therefore, the viewers were not supposed to completely know and understand how the mom and her son got trapped into "room."
Staying in the young child's point of view is very unique for a hostage/kidnapping story because in almost every other film like this that I have seen, it always drifts into the psyche of the person kidnapped or their captor. This film would not have done so well if it was not in the perspective of the child. If it was in the perspective of the captor, the woman kidnapped, or even the family of the woman, it would have been just like any other kidnapping/hostage film and it would have nothing to set it apart from those films.
Being in the five year old's mentality for the entire film also brings in a new way for us to see real life kidnapping and hostage situations. We often only think about the twisted kidnapper or the person who was kidnapped, never really the child going through it all. Whether the child was the one kidnapped or was conceived by the captor and the person kidnapped, we probably will rarely think about them and what they could be going through. All in all, this film definitely is something that I will remember for a long time and will inspire me to create better, original, well-thoughtout, and real content that others can enjoy like I did while watching Room.