ROOM is a masterpiece

First one I have seen that went into the 2016 Oscar season. Don’t get me wrong, SPOTLIGHT and THE BIG SHORT were really, really good, well made films, but ROOM is a great one.

Lenny Abrahamson’s direction makes the space feel like lived in, lets the characters breathe in thier choices. Recognition as well goes to Danny Cohen’s cinematography, especially during a scene where a character experiences a ‘first’.

What has made this film stick with me though, is Brie Larson. She is so powerful, so damaged, so motherly, so real. Her pain is there on the surface, her love for her son is real, her emotion is played with such conviction.