Must Watch!

Rating: 10/10 (22 March 2018)

It's quite a long time since I watched a movie that made me shed a tear. This one did it for me again.
I loved this movie in many angles such as acting was moving both from Brie and Jacob, development of the story was just right.
While watching this, I can't help not to question myself what if I was Joy.. how would I have handled it ? Fight and kill my kidnapper ? Commit suicide when I didn't see any hope escaping that room ? The thing is ... you cannot say Joy was so stupid to let herself be captive for seven years. You just don't know what it's like. He got kidnapped when she was a teenager and kept in that shed for 7 years. I am sure there are a lot of possibilities she had thought of to escape that place. She attempted to escape once with no success and got her wrist broken for it. In one scene, she was questioned by the reporter if she had not thought of requesting his captor to have Jack be adopted to give him a better normal life. And she answered .. "Why? He had me.". And I realized, why didn't she ? But for Joy, requesting that from a man, his captor, obviously someone she does not trust at all, would be a risk. There is no safer place for Jack other than with her. I have read some reviews that think how she behaved was totally unrealistic. Being a captive that long and in that conditioning would have affected her mentally / her reasoning. Again, with her situation, it would be hard to judge. And when they finally got out, you would think .. at last, freedom! In the scenes following the escape as they start their new lives, it felt that they are still trapped somehow.. trapped from the memory and horror of their experience, and the judgement of people around them. I loved that take. I think what's powerful about this movie is the fact that it is realistic enough this can happen to you and it lets the audience imagine themselves what if they are in Joy's situation.
I give it a 10 and would definitely recommend others to watch it.