My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Room is full of emotion and empathy throughout reading it. I read this, long after the hype of its movie tie-in, which i thankfully have not gotten the chance to watch yet. But after reading it, i am looking forward to watch it! there is a lot of thinking, Jack’s train of thoughts that make me wonder how the movie does it.
At first I thought it quite a dread to be reading descriptions after descriptions of things in Room, the small environment that Jack knew and grew up with till he turned five. I learnt, though, that those play quite an important role for us to understand the world according to Jack. I laughed, I teared, I felt the emotion that the author tries to deliver.
Only it left me wondering what kind of a person his mother really is, to understand her thoughts and feelings, what she is going through, because Room is really just about Jack’s thoughts and experiences.
Room does not really tugged the heart and wrenches me much, although I feel a lot of sympathy to Jack and his Ma. I think the story is pretty much a love between mother and her son, a child’s innocent take about the world. but the background of the story leave you a little disappointed and expecting more.
just grateful I just borrowed the book and not purchased it out of movie pressure.
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i had the chance of watching the movie. i made time for it. because reading through it makes me excited to see how it will be with real actors and situations. and i did not regret reading it first before watching the movie.
the first thing that i realise is that, i am very generous with my imagination. Room was bigger in my head, room actually looked like a room, living room style in my head, even with all the descriptions written in the book that it was a shed and all. so i was really taken by a pleasant surprise at what it actually was. i like it when that happened. like how my imagination can be distorted sometimes and a movie would make it better. i am also glad at how good the actors were in the movie. especially for Joy’s character because i wasnt able to grasp her feelings and emotions so much in the book. so i take in all her expressions and tones from the movie whole heartedly. and Jack the actor was really, excellent, able to make us believe a little on who and how Jack was brought up.
even though there are some parts not similar to the book, and i honestly thought that the time Jack ran away from the van is totally dramatic in my head, but it was actually quite ‘easy’ in the movie. and while i imagines it was Oprah doing the interview with Joy, it wasnt; i can very well vouch that this film gives me the feels. my heart goes to Jack. a lot of emotions and how a little boy thinks within his scope of living in a small room. i am just amazed and wondered how Joy got through it all. I wished they had explored a bit more on that.
Overall 3.5 out of 5 Seri scala.
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