re: Room (No Spoilers)

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How the kid was not nominated for a Globe or Oscar blows my mind. He was amazing.

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Completely agree with this. Not knocking Larson because she deserved a nod as well but he 100% carried the movie for me.

His performance gives the movie the moving, ultimately uplifting feeling the previous poster was talking about. The escape attempt had me holding my breath and fighting back tears because I so desperately needed that kid to make it to safety. The entire theater was sniffling or outright sobbing at the end of that scene when I saw it.

The movie would have felt much more dark and pessimistic if her character had been the protagonist imo, just because Room was a different place to her than it was for him.

I suppose the viewer can watch it from either perspective depending on their own nature, glass half full or half empty, although he is the narrator and his inner monologue ultimately paints the tone. He is also in every scene if I'm not mistaken, while Larson isn't in a few.

I honestly think this will be remembered as one of the best child performances in film and really wish he would have gotten a nomination, at least.