[Film Review] The film review of the room

Freedom is never a necessity of human nature, but love is.

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After watching several award-winning films of the 88th Oscar, such as fistful of dollars, Focus, bridge of spies, The Danish Girl and Room, there is no doubt that Room is my favorite.

Revenant is like a bottle of hard liquor. When you drink it, it is very high and explosive. Adrenal glands are everywhere, but when you wake up, it's gone.

The documentary theme of Focus is of great practical significance, but there are no excellent actors and no worrying plots.

"bridge of spies" is tired of reading the country and the sense of honor. Although the protagonist is fascinating, he is far away from you and me.

In The Danish Girl, Einar's clear, shining and melancholy eyes are unforgettable, but this story only leaves me with heartache. After all, I will never have such an experience with him in my life, so this bizarre story has no guiding significance for my life.

How do you say "room"? Just like you suddenly meet a friend who doesn't like to talk on the road, your impression of him is mediocre at first, but the more you know about him, the brighter his connotation will be, and the more fascinated you will be. The extremely calm and restrained expression of the film even made me feel dull in the first half, but with the deepening of the later plot, I vaguely felt an emotional fog rising from my heart. He wandered around trying to break out of his shell, but I didn't know where to let him out. Then I played it back, jumped in, and browsed some once seemingly dull plots and dialogues. Then I gradually realized that what he said was actually the universal values that apply to all of us: love and freedom.

Jack is a five-year-old boy. Seven years ago, his mother, Joey, was tricked into a shack by her neighbor, Uncle Nick, because she followed her mother's educational principle: be more kind to others. After that, Joey was raped and gave birth to Jack. The film tells how a mother and son lived in a small shack in the dark, so that they later escaped to face the society.

Before Jack was five years old, Joey kept telling him that this room was the whole world. In Jack's mind, mosquitoes and mice are real, because they have been seen in huts, while squirrels and dogs, the sky and rivers are only available on TV. Only he and his mother are real in this world. Jack will say hello to everything at home after getting up every day. Good morning, bonsai, chair 1, chair No.2, toilet ... He will play some seemingly simple and boring games with his mother, such as running from one wall to another, and then running back from one wall to another, but little Jack never gets bored. Little Jack called the world outside the house an alien planet. He also asked his mother why no one in the aliens responded to me when I shouted at the skylight. In this room, old Nick is a ghost. He controls all the sources of life in the world where little Jack and his mother live, forcing little Jack and his mother to obey some rules, such as not looking out when opening the door.

One day when Little Jack was five years old, when Joey's mother told him that she had lied to him before, the world outside the hut where they lived was the real world. Mother and son clashed for the first time. Imagine if the person closest to you told you that the world view he instilled in you from childhood was false, what would you think? However, Jack is a child after all, and his ability to accept new things is stronger than that of adults with established world outlook. He quickly agreed to his mother's plan, fled the hut and had his own world and freedom outside.

However, when the mother and son successfully escaped from the clutches of old Nick and entered the real world, their psychology was completely different from what they had imagined before.

When she was in a small room, Joey was the king of that world. When old Nick is away, she is responsible for taking care of the whole world. Even though she is frowning, she will still take good care of little Jack and make the whole world full of happiness. However, when she returned to this separated world for seven years, her mentality in the real world actually remained at 17 years old seven years ago. The unfairness of being deceived and imprisoned by old Nick for being nice to others and the sense of being abandoned in the real world make her feel like an orphan abandoned by the world, especially when her unbearable past needs to be broadcast in the spotlight. When the host asked her, there was no doubt that in Joey's subconscious, it was enough for Little Jack to have his mother's love. But the host asked, but which do you think is better for little Jack? Freedom is the first value in American values, so when Joey was not ready to face this first value since she was a child, she suddenly felt selfish. She even felt that in the eyes of outsiders, she was the one who spent seven years in prison on Little Jack. Her selfishness made little Jack lose the freedom he could have enjoyed, and made little Jack feel powerless when he first came into contact with a strange world, and even lost his old laughter.

Under the pressure of this double stimulus, Joey chose to commit suicide. When she was trapped in a hospital prison after being rescued, it was Little Jack who cut off the "strength" (hair) that he had always regarded as a treasure and gave it to Joey, which made Joey regain his courage to live. She also knows that love is always the most important thing between her and Jack. Joey felt guilty when he left the hospital and told Jack that I was not a good mother. Jack said, but you are a mother! At that moment, something sour and warm in my heart welled up in my nose.

This film tells us that when love is rich enough, freedom is not so needed in human nature. In the shack where he was imprisoned, freedom was seriously lacking, but because of love, little Jack was full of feelings for everything that could not be more ordinary: the egg snake was his most beautiful friend, the mini-roll was his playground, the spoon was his little assistant for eating, and the toilet was his magician ... In the value system where he never knew what freedom was, love could play all roles. But for Joey who had lived in the real world for 17 years, her freedom was taken away by old Nick's shack. The shack was her humiliating experience from beginning to end. Although she had little Jack, the humiliation of her freedom being ruthlessly taken away always stung her. It's like being born blind and being born blind. The former never knows the beauty of the world, so he will create a world that satisfies his heart, while the latter is different. Although the world he has seen can be felt in his heart, it will always be taken away. The former has never been there, so it has never been lost, while the latter is the opposite. So when Joey and Jack return to the world, they will go through different psychological processes. The former needs to accept his broken heart, accept the society that abandoned him, and reconcile with his humiliation, while the latter meets the world (freedom) for the first time. There is no old hatred and mutual understanding, only mutual curiosity and acceptance, so Jack quickly gets used to Joey's life without his mother during his hospitalization and learns to live in peace with the world.

At the end of the film, when Joey and Jack return to their shack, they feel completely different feelings in the same scene. For Joey, it was an era of humiliation and hatred when he was cheated and lost his freedom. For Jack, it was a happy time similar to his hometown and childhood, where "maternal love has everything". It goes without saying that why such different psychological refraction occurs within the same free boundary is because of love. Imagine that even if you are in a vast free and realistic world, if everyone in this world is selfish and narrow-minded, you will only feel the happiness of freedom through mutual occupation and plunder without paying. Of course not. Because happiness comes from sharing and giving, what about space in a world where there is no love, only selfishness, no giving and only possession? So freedom is never a necessity of human nature, but love is.