Room with no view but full of great performances and love

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2016)

Saw Room finally. Saw it because it had Oscar nominations and did not really read about it before I went to see it. So I was lost watching it first. I tried to understand why this woman and the child were so poor and lived in a room which was bedroom, bathroom and kitchen and living room and never seemed to go out. Slowly it dawned on me that they were held captive by Old Nick and that the child had never seen the outside world, but knew television and some books and stories told by his mother. I was fascinated. Somehow the film succeeded in making me identify with every character in that movie. I tried to imagine what I would have done or thought if I would have been the mother, the child, Old Nick, the grandmother and grandfather, the partner of the grandmother . I loved the movie. I loved the performances. I loved how it make me think and feel and imagine living in a world reduced to a room . I loved the art the two captives were creating and the love they had for each other. Some people obviously find this movie boring, I was captivated from beginning to end. Awestruck really.