Am I the only one? Closure!

It would have been more interesting if they followed up on Old Nick's trial at least a little bit. The movie was interesting until they escaped, then it dragged quite a bit.

Due process is for all American citizens. People like Bin Laden forfeit due process because they are not US citizens.

Knowing he got arrested was closure enough for me. This is not the type of movie that is going to spoon feed the audience.

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

The film literally ends with "say goodbye to Room". Getting hung up on what happened/will happen to Old Nick is counter-intuitive to the message of the film

You'd feel cocky too if you were full of myself.

That's not justice, it's revenge. What people who do that deserve is not the publicity of a trial, but to be locked away and forgotten forever, just what they tried to do to their victims, but with actually nobody remembering them at all. That's what they did to Old Nick here.

No offense, but you are a typical American movie goer. Everything has to be wrapped up, neat and tidy.

Real films leave things to your imagination. That is why this film is so good. Take for instance, Joy's suicide attempt. No where is it referenced by the words "suicide attempt" but any viewer with a brain realized what occurred.

As far as closure on Old Nick, that is left up to the viewer's imagination. For me he was sentenced life in federal prison, and subjected to prison "justice". IE physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Exactly what he did to Joy.

Why do you Americans love killing defenseless people so much?

What would a murder solve? Personally, I'm a believer in the rule of law, not the jungle.

If only the "strong" survive - actually the cowards with firearms - then the "weak" & defenseless will always suffer. The strong always prey upon the weak.

I also find your violent homosexual fantasies pretty confronting too. Your prescribed treatment of somebody who cannot defend him/herself is precisely the sort of treatment that imprisoned & enslaved mother & son!

Take a long, hard look at yourself in the mirror. You are, by your own admission, just as much of a perverted sexual predator as Old Nick was portrayed to be!

I liked it better that the closure didn't involved a reunion with Old Nick or some court trial.

I think the fact that he is barely mentioned again after the escape it part of what makes this film so brilliant.

So many stories align "closure" with justice. This film, however, aligned closure with Ma and Jack simply growing past the traumas of room.

The last scene of them saying "goodbye" to the room and walking away from their past offers more closure to me as a viewer than some long, drawn-out court scenes would have. The ending wasn't about forgetting Old Nick and moving past the trauma he caused, but more so forgetting about ROOM and the traumas that happened within it.

At the end of the film, there is no need for closure with Old Nick because Old Nick no longer even exists to them.

There is another reason to fill your heart with hatred.

"Closure" is a myth designed to help people who haven't been through something terrible feel better about moving on from worrying about people who have.