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Originally Posted by Justin101  Room (2015) 
A very successful book adaptation which only made me cry 3 times!
Four and a half out of five! |
I haven't read the novel but I saw
Room on Thursday and described it the same way I did The Revenant: 'powerful, moving, and thought-provoking'. It's technically brilliant and the central performances, particularly by Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay, are astonishing. One of the people I went with has read the book and said it was a very faithful adaptation, no doubt helped by the author also writing the screenplay.
Yesterday, I went to the cinema to see
Spotlight and was incredibly impressed. It has a tremendous ensemble cast without a weak link, the benefit of a powerful true story as the basis for the complex, but accessible, screenplay and very assured direction. A testament to how well it is made is how I forgot how the real situation unfolded and was more or less transported to 2001. As such, when the film ends and there is text on screen to say 'what happened next', there were audible gasps in the cinema. Apart from the central abuse story, it has an important subplot about the nature of Internet taking away from print newspapers and people demanding instant gratification at the expense of long, exhaustive, and expensive, investigative reports. You could say the same is true for television, with recent events on Newsnight and Panorama as good examples.
I can see why both films have been nominated for many industry awards, including Oscars, and they are both well worth checking out if you have a chance.
29th January 2016, 08:13 PM
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