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Tear Jerker / Room

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The Room book:

  • It's eventually revealed that Ma had another child before Jack in Room. However, the daughter came out dead with the cord wrapped around her neck. Years after the fact, Ma is shown to still be haunted by it.

The Room film adaptation:

  • Joy fighting with her mother about what happened to her.
    I'm sorry that I'm not "nice" anymore, but you know what? Maybe if your voice, saying, "Be nice!" hadn't been in my head, then maybe I wouldn't have helped the guy with the fucking sick dog!
  • Joy telling Jack the truth about the world and why they live in Room, and Jack rejecting it.
    Joy: Old Nick stole me.
    Jack: I want a different story!
    Joy: No, this is the story that you get!
  • Joy faking Jack's death to fool Old Nick. In the sense that she's letting go of her son and sending him into a dangerous enterprise, her grief is very real.
  • Joy's interview where she is asked by the news reporter if having Old Nick send Jack away would have been better for him. The utter conflict between wanting to have her beloved son be close to her, yet also wanting to do what's best for him and having the idea that she might have failed is crushing.
  • Joy's dad Robert bursts into tears the second he sees Joy for the first time in seven years.

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