The Mars Room Movie

Ironically the mars room is best in its minor incidents.

The mars room movie. The mars room jumps back and forth in time between present day at stanville women s correctional facility where myriad humiliations occur and romy s upbringing in a rough san francisco. The mars room was shortlisted for the 2018 man booker prize and the national book critics circle award for fiction. The mars room builds to a redemption that comes from hard truth sharp and broken and shaped by an author of exceptional power and grace jeff baker the seattle times the book is beautifully written without sentimentality or agenda and at times even with a sly and dark humor. Like all great fiction the mars room is by native instinct a carnival of human complexity emphasising the vast unknowability of human lives against systems and ideologies that would reduce them.

With matt damon jessica chastain kristen wiig kate mara. In the mars room the neglected become the focus and it s apparent that kushner s imagination almost dickensian in its amplitude also embraces some of dickens s reformist zeal. It is audacious and tragic propulsive and yet beautifully refined. On november 5 2018 the mars room received france s prix médicis étranger.

A weird little chapter about richard nixon in opryland for instance is darkly comic and unsettling while hinting at some chilling. The mars room is a provocative raveworthy exploration of choices or indeed the absence of any perceived choice for adolescent and teen female criminals on the lower echelon of the socio economic scale who grow up sexually abused addicted to street drugs and or engaged in a sex related trade because they ve had no choice in where how and by. Stunning and unsentimental the mars room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in kushner s work.