Film No. 4 (2016) Room January 16th.

Film No. 4 (2016) January 16th.  10.45 AM LUNA Leederville. 

"I see windows and hundreds of cars and birds and grandma and grandpa" (Jack ,Jacob Tremblay) tells of his new experiences in a world beyond Room)

Room reminds me why regular visits to the cinema ranks so highly as one of my preferred pastimes. It's themes will not appeal to huge audiences world wide but it will open the hearts and minds of those who choose to venture to a film depicting the repercussions of one of the most heinous crimes known to mankind, child abduction and rape.


Room(a garden shed) is the only world Jack (Jacob Tremblay) has experienced when we meet him and his mother Joy (Brie Larson). Joy was kidnapped from the street when she was seventeen and held in the shed in a suburban back yard for 7 years during which time she gave birth to Jack, who is just about to turn five. From here we take a journey with them in planet Room as we comprehend the power of human devotion. In such excruciatingly distasteful circumstances there is great sanity in the relationship we build with Jack and Joy.


Written by Amanda Donoghue as a novel of the same name in 2010, its subsequent success lead Donoghue to writing her first screenplay and she has excelled. Larson has won The Golden Globe for her performance, an accolade which must surely have given Donoghue a warm and fuzzy feeling but Jacob Tremblay's work as Jack is the crowd-pleaser. The film relies heavily on the legitimacy of Jack and this is where Donoghue and Tremblay work in tandem with great effect.


So what if a young girl is taken from the street one day and held against her will for 7 years in a space no bigger than a common garden shed? How does she survive such an horrendous ordeal? When she has a child during that time, how does she deal with bringing that child up in such restrictive circumstances? This may be the true test of the concept that Love Conquers All. Room plays out in two halves, for good reason, you may find the answers to some of these questions in this brilliantly paced film. 10GUMS.