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Room (2015)

After viewing ‘Room’ for the first I realised that the heart of the film is truly all about the relationship between a mother and her son. This sophisticated story crafted from author and screenwriter of the film ‘Room’, Emma Donoghue, tells an emotional and beautiful story about a woman (Brie Larson) and her young son (Jacob Tremblay) who for years have been held captive in an enclosed room, finally gaining their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

Director Lenny Abrahamson brilliantly adapts this story to the silver screen, while getting the best out of his cast and crew. Both Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay deliver amazing performances as the protagonists of the film. Brie Larson’s character Ma is trying to survive as well as protecting her son (Jacob Tremblay) from her abuser Old Nick who was the man who abducted her. This film really shows how complicated family can be and of a mother and son and later in the film with Jack’s grandparents. The whole film is masterly crafted from the cinematography, production design, editing, to the performances. The use of imagination of the limited space of which they are living. Each area has a purpose. A play area, bathing area, eating area and a daily exercise area. This within the film creates a sense of space, but visually it is still only one room. This is shown in the opening scene as it is seen from Jacks (Jacob Tremblay’s) point of view.

The main sequence I would like to talk about is the escape scene. Firstly, the way the escape scene is written and visually told and coordinated from the moment the sequence began. From Ma’s plan of using the rug in the room to put Jack into it as he plays dead in front of Old Nick to help him escape to the way the camera visually tells us what Jack is seeing. The camera becomes blurry to show that his eyes are adjusting to the daylight for the first time, from the close shot of Jacks face, as he reacts to the sky. Later, it shows jack reuniting with Ma and the performances of both the actors in this scene really shows the audience how precious family is and how much a child can mean to a mother.

Black Panther (2018)

The way the director, Ryan Coogler, beautifully illustrates the characters and the world a fictional country ‘Wakanda’ from the Black Panther comic books to the big screen is something we rarely see. This film had huge cultural impact and influences and resonated with many people including me for many reasons. The film caught the attention of the world as it was of one the first sci-fi films with a predominately black cast. It sparked conversations about a range of topics like race, justice, Afrofuturism, identity and many more, making it relevant today. Through the different members and departments of the crew like the cinematographer, composer, production designer and costume designer which have helped to bring this fictional king and African nation to life onto the big screen.

The African influences used throughout the film is something we don’t see very often. The costume designer Ruth E. Carter, the production designer Hannah Beachler and composer Ludwig Göransson demonstrates this beautifully through visuals and sound of African costumes/garments, architecture and music that the teams had created. Ruth E. Carter recreated traditional garments worn from different African countries like Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya to visually show the audience. The different tribal colours, jewellery and head pieces they are wearing while also adding futuristic elements to the clothing like metal, which in the film is a fictional metal known as ‘Vibranium’, to the armour worn by the Black panther and his guards. How a character can tell the audience a story through the clothes they have on their bodies is truly fascinating and this spoke to a lot of the African and black audience as it celebrates African culture in a positive light. Hannah Beachler and her team created traditional pieces of African art like tribal masks and patterns and shapes while also cooperating futuristic themes with the traditional with metals and technology to show how advanced and wealthy this country is. Finally, Ludwig Göransson uses a range of sounds and music from different genes of music like hip-hop and traditional African music to create an atmosphere for the film

The sequence which shows this collaboration in full effect is one of the first scenes in the film where Black Panther and friends arrive in Wakanda (which is the first time we see the country) with the cinematography showing the landscape of the terrain of Africa while a futuristic ship flies over makes it feel even more grounded in reality.

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