There is always ROOM for love...

What could be bigger than parents love to their children? Would their children love them back in the same way? What could be stronger than the power of love? What means life from eyes of a kid to an adult? All this questions are the set up for the new novel adaptation into a major motion event. "Room" (2015), based on the popular novel from 2010, that bases it's plot in the eyes from a 5 year old boy that only knows one world. The one that is inside an 11 x 11 room where he was born and spend his days with his mother, a 24 year old girl that was kidnapped 7 years ago and has been object of all kind of abusive behaviors by her captor.

What sounds like the perfect plot for a thriller turns into an emotion rollercoaster of the human condition and what define us as humans in this sometimes simple others complex world. We get into this small room that turns into a big world for this young boy, by his own perspective when he starts to explore the meaning of all objects that surround him. From a chair, a table, a bed, this is all what he knows, and the rest is part of a fictional place. Animals are not real, the sky is not real, trees are not real, and his interaction with other people other than his mother are non existence. She tries to make his life the most joyful and happy as possible. Getting all what they need to survive and a weekly treat from the man that keeps them captive. Mention apart deserves the two performances from our main characters, Mum and Jack, in the hands of two new actors deserve all credit as they are able to take us through this emotional journey thanks to terrific performances and assertive direction and adaptation from the book, that can't feel more real.

Their connection grows as unique and bigger as they only have themselves to fight their loneliness and their small world. What he seems like the only world he knows, she misses from all what she knows it's out there and she's no longer part of it plus suffering from physical and psychological abuse, making her fight to keep sanity for her son and to bring the best for him as he is the only hope that keeps her alive. We don't know much about the guy behind this. We only know what he did and how he is making this happening but definitely as a crazy man that can't recognize this boy as his son and lack of love for him just makes her stronger to keep her son alive and safe.

Then the story moves to the second half where things change. Mow they are out and we go with them through the process of adaptation to the outside world. We are able to explore with a little guy through his eyes what means for any human being to explore the world for the first time. The first time of everything. To see the sky, breath fresh air, explore its scents and colors. First contact with other humans and animals. Realize what love means. What means that other people care about you. Take care of you and your needs. Listen to you. Talk to you. Play with you. What means to try all new things. New food. New places. All those simple things than in perspective seems like boring in a daily basis but can be fun when doing for the first time just to get use to them and move on. How we are defined ny what our parents taught us when we were young. How much of them we keep when we start growing up and even as adults we always have some of them with us. how important is their role model to any child and how big is their impact when a person starts to define their own persona.

On the other side and with other perspective we have life through the eyes of a mother. She's back to the world she was taken from. And after all what she been through is hard to feel part of this place anymore. Feels like everything was rapped from her and thats she no longer belong and she was stuck in a moment trying now to identify who is she now. only thing that brings her back to the ground is this little person that was sharing her suffering and kept feeling alive inside of her. What are those things that each one of us need in moments when we are about to lose it, to bring us back home? For one could be love, for others hope, money, people, dreams, courage, etc but all needed to keep us sane and when we don't have them, thats when we are lost.

What define us as a person? how can other affect that and transform us into other person? how the power of love can keep us straight and how the lack of it can destroy us? Our capacity to adapt to circumstances and environments is able to deal with extreme situations when we are challenge to ourselves or it just applies in some cases? What makes our lives worth to live for; the people that gets into it, the things we can get and enjoy, the places we can go, the experiences we make of it, or the connections we build through it that define us? Life is like a book or a novel, get chapters, so we need to enjoy and embrace each one of them so we can move to the next one, some are great some are not, but each one is made with a purpose we might not know or  realize at the moment but at the end only things like love and the people that loves us will make us stronger to move through every challenge and hold to the fact that we might not be the same person we were before but that doesn't  mean our feelings have changed or just the opposite but at the end, we get to the point where we need to face the fact that we need to have a closure and move on.