She quotes McIlwain, a researcher, who says: «Our national ideal of who is vulnerable — and who
holds victim status — are those who are white and female.»
What lifts it above movie - of - the - week
status is Lenny Abrahamson's sensitive direction, eliciting powerful performances from Brie Larson as a kidnapping
victim who's been
held in a garden shed for seven years and Jacob Tremblay as her 5 - year - old son, whose young mind can't even conceive of a world outside «Room.»