An excellent film

Rating: 10/10 (26 February 2016)

Room is one of the best movies I've watched in a long time and totally deserving of all the award attention that it has been getting.
The performances of both Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay are excellent. Brie Larson really succeeds to show the fear and desperation that Joy/Ma felt. There are parts where she seems so tired and exasperated and I thought that it was a spot on reaction for someone in her position. Jacob Tremblay is a phenomenal child actor. It's too often when children in movies are two dimensional characters, whose range as characters moves from 'cute' to 'annoying brats'. Tremblay was more than that - he showed feelings and variety. He was accurately childishly annoying in some scenes but I never held it against his characters because it made sense that he would behave in such a way.
The director also handled space in an excellent way. In the beginning Room doesn't appear all that small which showed nicely how to Jake it was his only known world. In the end we are shocked to see how small Room truly is and that combined with the camera showing Brie Larson's face makes her character all the more tragic.