Finally saw it and really enjoyed it.i can see why there was so much talk about it. Must say I've never seen a more disappointing set of comments or questions on these message boards . Was hoping to see some good points made , Instead the majority are people talking about the kids hair , how boring they thought it was and trying to pick holes in a solid story line
shareI totally agree- so many people just missed the point of this wonderful film. I am glad you enjoyed it!
shareI agree that it is very weird. I'm not sure what it is about this movie that causes so many viewers to missunderstand aspects of it so completely and, in some cases, bizarrely.
As a quick glance at this message board shows, many viewers of Room miss some of the most basic facts about it and/or to assume things about it that are not remotely true. I didn't think this movie was that complicated. So I don't know if it is something about this movie in particular that causes people to pay very poor attention to it or if people are just more distracted and less capable of concentrating on movies now in general, but the first several board pages show people who believe bizarre theories like:
*Jack's long hair means that he is really a girl or transgender.
*Jack is not really Joy's child. Instead, he was a baby whom Old Nick kidnapped separately so that Joy could have a companion in the room.
*Jack is Joy's child, but he is the product of her own father raping her (this one is especially bizarre given that Jack is 5 but Joy had been missing for 7 years).
*It would have been really easy to escape from the shed by just (choose one) tunneling out of the bottom / breaking the skylight / scalding the kidnapper with boiling water (and then what?) / killing the kidnapper in his sleep (and then getting out how?).
*Joy's plan with the boiling water was to burn Jack's face off (!!) so Old Nick would take him to the hospital.
* It would have been impossible for that shed to be in a residential back yard without a neighbor noticing that there were people imprisoned in it (when exactly that happened to Jaycee Dugard for many years).
*A doctor's use of the word "plastic" to refer to Jack's ability to recover from trauma means that Jack is not a real person.
* A real reporter would never ask a kidnapping victim the kind of harsh questions that Joy got asked (ignoring the entire existence of Nancy Grace).
and people who missed that:
* Joy breastfeeds Jack regularly while in the room, despite the fact that he is long past the age when most children get weaned.
* They call their captor "Old Nick" because it is a nickname for the devil.
* There is an outside padlock on the shed, so even if Joy were able to guess the code on the keypad, she would still be trapped.
*Joy HAD tried to escape n the past, and got her wrist permanently injured in the process.
I don't think this is a perfect movie, but the criticisms of it that most people come up with are not what you would call reasoned, sensible, salient arguments.
I agree that some of these posts are bizarre and I've answered some of them. It's like some users haven't truly paid attention to the film or were just disinterested enough to care about what was going on. It didn't really take a lot for me to figure this film out after seeing it for the first time. There are also some deep themes in this film that could be missed for a lot of viewers.
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It's seems a lot of posters haven't given any real thought to the film and its contents.
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Sadly that's most boards on imdb...
shareThere have been some intelligent and insightful threads and posts, but it's true you have to search for them because the majority are vapid, repetitive or simply shed light on the poster's lack of intelligent insight (to put it politely).
Most boards are like this, or even worse. There are some rare exceptions, but I won't name them lest a comment attract the attention of the intellectually challenged.