Amazing, Disturbing, Haunting Film

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2016)

Room deserves to receive Best Picture this year. Hands down Room deserves to win. Forget The Revenant, which is an absurdly violent study in male macho-masculinity with only one woman character for a split second who is being raped.
Room is a profoundly deep film told from the perspective of both a young woman and her child born unto her in captivity via being a hostage sex slave. The film tells much of the story from the eyes of an innocent 5 year old who knows only this Room and his Ma. The young woman does an amazing job holding it together to take care of her young child. It is a story of human survival, motherly love and the ultimate strength and goodness of (most) people.
There are so many layers to this movie. I felt for everyone. The story of the young woman (Brie Larson) is rather downplayed. There was so much more to tell about her - how did she endure the nightly (or near nightly rapes), how did she give birth by herself in this Room, how did she manage on so many levels? I also felt for her parents, it would be hard to accept this child, the child born from rape and forced impregnation. She was a 17 year old, a little girl, the last time her parents saw her, now she is a woman with a child born from these circumstances.
The perspective of the child is fascinating. Never having seen "the world." Knowing only his Ma. So innocent.
This movie is disturbing and haunting. I left the theater thinking about it off and on for the next several days. Thinking through all the complexity of what she (Ma / Brie Larson) went through and her parents and all sorts of things.
Somehow, for such a horrific subject, the film manages to bring out the positive in how hard a woman can fight for survival, how strong she can be to take care of her child. It is an amazing film. It's heavy and heartbreaking but it's also beautiful.
It deserves all the awards!