Room (2005)

Very best movie i ever watch

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

***SPOILERS*** Suffering from severe migraine headaches and feeling that the world is closing in on her middle-age Huston Texas housewife Julia Baker, Cyndi Williams,feels she needs a change in life and finally does it. Leaves her troubled and deeply in debt life behind together with her husband and two children. Leaving on a trip of what she hopes to be discovery and back to sanity Julia feels that it would lead her to better days ahead and turn her miserable life around. With her embezzling the weekly take at the bingo parlor that she worked at Julia then takes the first plane out to New York City in order to get away from it all: The "Big Apple" New York CityAlone and without a place to stay in the big city,rents in NYC were a lot higher then Cyndi expected, during the Christmas holiday season Cyndi roams the streets of New York until she runs into a friend of her from back in Huston, what a small world, Suzy who now calls herself Alex, Gretchen Krich. Alex gives her the name of a real-estate agent friend of her Athina, Suzanne Savoy, who can get her an apartment at a cut rate price. As things turned even cut-rate prices weren't all that affordable for Julia here in NYC who's embezzled cash was quickly running out on her. Before that she meets in a bar in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn Big Tex, Shanon Weaver, who in him after taken a couple dozen belts of Jack Daniels on the rocks and being almost blind drunk is not turned off by the middle aged and somewhat overweight Julia. Tex after making some friendly conversation with her takes Julia to his pad at the Saint George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights to be bedded down,by him, for the night. The next day with the booze wearing off him Tex realized his mistake as both he and Julia quietly parted ways.***SPOILERS*** Still homeless at the end of the movie, which ends abruptly, we see Julia aimlessly roaming the streets of New York looking for this mythical room that's she's been hallucinating about all during the movie. As she then ends up in this sleazy go-go joint alone lost and confused and hoping that she'll finally find herself before the men with the white suites do.P.S Loneliness, which she tried to escape from, followed Julia all the way to NYC. And it was there in the big cold heartless and almost friendless, with the exception of Alex, city that the truth finally hit her.

"Room" is one of my favorite films. I really love the the sounds and the imagery, as well as he story itself. It's very real to me, and stimulates great emotion. I have recommended it several times to people. I can only explain my love for this piece in this way: I feel that it is both a literal and abstract expression of a very real depth that many of us fail to come to terms with- something that remains unsupportable in our psyches. This film goes even further beyond touching down on that sadness and emptiness, as well as the desperation of finding some relief in the great pursuit of those answers that are nearly impossible to find. Although the concept may not be easy to explain, or for some to open themselves to comprehend, it is deeply felt and shoots right through the soul. Amazing experience that gets better each time I watch it. You're real artists. I appreciate what you do. I will look forward to making it a point to check out future projects submitted.

The only reason I gave this movie a 2 was for the acting... it was really quite good. Otherwise, I would have given it a -10. Utter rubbish. Yes, the camera work was good and as mentioned the acting was just fine. But a plot that made sense would have been nice. There were a few clever twists and turns and then... nothing. We're left, at the end, with a swirling montage representing nothing... if they are waiting for money to make the sequel, "Room for hire", I'll chip in a dollar. Maybe then it would end. Frankly, I hate pretentious work that purports to be "meaningful." The review said it was "existential." I think Sartre or Camus would be laughing silly to the banality of the idea of this 'existentialism." It looked more like she needed a fine tuning knob on her vision receptor. I truly hated this movie for making me wait 75 minutes to find out they had no idea how to end it. And the poor actors, still waiting for an ending, so they could have the denouement. A lot of hot air signifying absolutely nothing. I hope he never makes another.

**Possible Spoilers** I saw this in Austin two days ago, and I honestly have to say it was a waste of time. I'm not one to only like one genre, or not be able to open my mind to abstract vision, but this film has no answers to any questions brought up during the course of the razor thin narrative. The director assured us the film should be interpreted by the viewer, but how can one do this if there is little or nothing to interpret? Cyndi Williams certainly delivers a powerful performance, but it's hard to say for what. The story, very, very thin story, is about Williams' middle-aged housewife who suffers visions with her migraines and one day crashes her car which pushes her to fly out to NYC for no reason except to find the non-descript warehouse/loft room she sees in her migraine episodes.The camera work is amateur and not worth noting. The music is well done, as is the sound design, bu to what purpose is still a mystery to me. I usually feel when a filmmaker does not give ANY concrete answers or motivations for character development or actions it is a cop out. This is no different. You walk away not feeling one bit of satisfaction for anything. You just keep wondering why you just wasted 100 minutes watching NOTHING happen and nothing resolve itself. Watch out.