Growing up in a crawl space
Captivity drama Room is a claustrophobic peek into the fenced-in world of a young boy.
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A SENSE of absolute normalcy pervades the opening scene in Room, where a young narrator celebrating his fifth birthday happily greets inanimate objects and describes the routine goings-on around him. "Good morning rug, good morning sink," says Jack (Jacob Tremblay) with the kind of childlike innocence that parents will readily recognise.
As the scene unfolds, that sense is replaced by growing alarm and discomfort when we learn that the room he's in is his entire world and that Jack and his Ma (Brie Larson) are captives in a windowless space the size (and location) of a garden shed.
Jack refers to it as "room" or "place", while for Ma freedom and the outside world are unattainable concepts, represented by a skylight that is well beyond reach.
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