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- The movie was recently made available for streaming on Netflix, meaning Room has more eyes on it than usual. Naturally, this has sparked questions from some over whether or not the events of the film happened in real life. However, Room was not based upon a true story, but rather a 2010 novel by Emma Donoghue by the same name.
thedirect.com/article/room-movie-true-story-whats-real-vs-fakeIs Room Movie a True Story? What's Real vs. Fake - The Direct
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Sep 14, 2020 · The film, starring Brie Larson, based on the book of the same name by author Emma Donoghue, tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped, raped and made to have a child with her abuser.
Room 237 is told entirely through voice-overs by people with theories about The Shining. According to one, the film is about the cultural assimilation of Native Americans, [9] because, according to the story, the hotel was built on a Native American burial mound; and there is imagery throughout the film associated with the American West.
What makes Room 237 truly revelatory, however, has less to do with The Shining than the myth of Kubrick as a looming, monolithic master filmmaker—and the cult of auteurism in general.
Jan 29, 2012 · “Room 237” — the title is a reference to a haunted room in the hotel — ends with no clear consensus on just what “The Shining” actually means. How could it?
Apr 3, 2013 · You could say that “Room 237” is based on a similar illusion, getting us to see things in a movie that either aren’t there or aren’t what they appear to be.
Mar 17, 2013 · At William Howard Taft High School, where Kubrick managed to fail English, I found a Room 237. In Shining lore, the numeral 237 itself is of special significance, being as Kubrick changed the...
Dec 14, 2012 · In anticipation of seeing “Room 237,” I did a little research, consulting the movie’s primary sources on the web, and inspired by early critical reactions from Jonathan Rosenbaum and Girish Shambu, who saw “Room 237” in Toronto and have raised issues independent of the film itself.
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