Room (I) (2015)
Jacob Tremblay: Jack
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Jack : I've been in the world 37 hours. I've seen pancakes, and a stairs, and birds, and windows, and hundreds of cars. And clouds, and police, and doctors, and grandma and grandpa. But Ma says they don't live together in the hammock house anymore. Grandma lives there with her friend Leo now. And Grandpa lives far away. I've seen persons with different faces, and bigness, and smells, talking all together. The world's like all TV planets on at the same time, so I don't know which way to look and listen. There's doors and... more doors. And behind all the doors, there's another inside, and another outside. And things happen, happen, HAPPENING. It never stops. Plus, the world's always changing brightness, and hotness. And there's invisible germs floating everywhere. When I was small, I only knew small things. But now I'm five, I know EVERYTHING!
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Jack : There's so much of "place" in the world. There's less time because the time has to be spread extra thin over all the places, like butter. so all the persons say "Hurry up! Let's get going! Pick up the pace! Finish up now!". Ma was in a hurry to go "boing" up to Heaven, but she forgot me. Dumbo Ma! So the aliens threw her back down. CRASH! And broke her.
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[first lines]
Ma : Ssh. Go back to sleep.
Jack : [reciting to himself] Once upon a time, before I came, you cried and cried and watched TV all day, until you were a zombie. But then I zoomed down from heaven, through skylight, into Room. Whoosh-pshew! And I was kicking you from the inside. Boom, boom! And then I shot out onto Rug with my eyes wide open, and you cutt-ed the cord and said, "Hello, Jack!"
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Jack : There are so many things out here. And sometimes it's scary. But that's ok. Because it's still just you and me...
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Jack : When I was small, I only knew small things. But now I'm five, I know everything!
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Jack : When I was four, I didn't even know about the world, and now me and ma are going to live in it forever and ever until we're dead. This is a street in a city in a country called America, and earth. That's a blue and green planet, always spinning, so I don't know why we don't fall off. Then, there's outer space. And nobody knows where's heaven. Ma and I have decided that because we don't know what we like, we get to try everything. There are so many things out here. And sometimes, it's scary, but that's okay, because it's still just you and me.
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Jack : Do you think this will work? Can my strong be her strong, too?
Nancy : Oh. Of course it can. We all help each other stay strong. No one is strong alone. You know, you and your mom, you help each other through, don't you?
Jack : Yep.
Nancy : Mmm-hmm. And you and me, you and Leo, Leo and me. We all have the same strong.
Jack : [thinks] I guess you're right.
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Jack : Ma and I have decided that since we don't know what we like, we get to try *everything.*
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Jack : Grandma?
Nancy : Yes?
Jack : I need the scissors.
Nancy : What for?
Jack : For cutting my hair.
Nancy : Do you really want to do that?
Jack : I want to send it to Ma.
Nancy : How come?
Jack : She needs my strong more than me, so I want to send it to her, or you could take it to her?
Nancy : I could help you, if you'd like?
Jack : Yes please.
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Jack : Eggsnake's our longest friend and fanciest. Meltedy spoon's the best to eat with because he's more blobbier. Labyrinth is the twistiest and she hides things so I don't know where they are. Toilet's the best at disappearing poo. Lamp's the brightest, except when the power's cut. You're the best at reading and songs and lots, except if you're having a gone day. I'm the best at drawing, and jumping, and growing, and nearly everything!
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Jack : Is bad tooth hurting?
Ma : Mmhmm, but you know mind over matter.
Jack : If you don't mind, it doesn't matter
Ma : You're right. Hey do you know what we're gonna do today?
Jack : What?
Ma : We're going to bake a birthday cake
Jack : A birthday cake?
Ma : Mmhmm
Jack : Like from TV?
Ma : Mmhmm, but for real
Jack : No way!
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Jack : [thinking to himself] One, two, three... There's room, then outer space, with all the TV planets, then heaven. Plant is real, but not trees. Spiders are real, and one time the mosquito that was sucking my blood. But squirrels and dogs are just TV, except lucky. He's my dog who might come some day. Monsters are too big to be real, and the sea. TV persons are flat and made of colors. But me and you are real.
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Ma : One day when I was seventeen, I was walking home from school...
Jack : Where was I?
Ma : You were still in up heaven. But there was a guy. He pretended that his dog was sick.
Jack : What guy?
Ma : Old Nick. We call him "Old Nick". I don't know what his real name is. He pretended his dog was sick...
Jack : What's the dog's name?
Ma : Jack, there's wasn't a dog! He was trying to trick me, OK? There wasn't a dog, Old Nick stole me.
Jack : I want a different story!
Ma : No! This is the story that you get! He put me in his garden shed. Here. Room is the shed. He's locked the door. He's the only one who knows the code. You know, the secret numbers that open the door? He's the only one who knows, and I've been locked in here for seven years. I've been in here for seven years, OK.
Jack : This story is boring!
Ma : Jack, the world is so big. It's so big, you wouldn't believe it. And room is just one stinky part of it.
Jack : Room's not stinky, only when you do a fart!
[Both start crying]
Ma : Oh God, OK.
Jack : I don't believe in your STINKY world!
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Ma : [finds a photo of her relay race team] You know who that is?
Jack : This? That's you.
Ma : Yeah, that's me. And Stacy Benton and Heather Noel and Laura Sullivan. We were on a relay team. I was the anchor. I was really fast. We did track.
Jack : Real track?
Ma : Mmm-hmm. On a field.
[long pause]
Ma : You know what happened to them?
Jack : No.
Ma : Exactly.
[puts the photo down and tries to busy herself]
Ma : Nothing. They just lived their life and nothing happened.
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Ma : [about the mouse] He's on the other side of this wall.
Jack : What other side?
Ma : Jack, there's two sides to everything.
Jack : Not on an octagon.
Ma : Yeah, but...
Jack : [Interrupts] An octagon has eight sides
Ma : But a wall, okay, a wall's like this, see? And we're on the inside and mouse is on the outside.
Jack : In outer space?
Ma : No, in the world. It's much closer than outer space.
Jack : I can't see the outside-side.
Ma : Listen, I know that I told you something else before, but you were much younger. I didn't think that you could understand, but now you're so old, you're so smart. I know that you can get this. Where do you think that old Nick gets our food?
Jack : From TV by magic!
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Officer Parker : What made you jump out the truck, Jack?
Jack : Ma said in my head.
Officer Parker : Okay, what exactly did she say?
Jack : Jump when it slows down, but I couldn't.
Officer Parker : All right. So what did you do? What did you do?
Jack : Third time, I got bent.
Officer Parker : The... third time of what, Jack?
Jack : Third slow. Everything went sideways, and then it stopped, then I jumped...
Officer Parker : I got it.
Jack : ...into...
Officer Parker : I got it, buddy. I got it.
[into her radio]
Officer Parker : 54-09 call. Dispatch, listen carefully. We have a rough location. All right, uh... south on Elm, three stop signs past the junction with Beech. Look for a garden shed with a skylight. Also check the most recent satellite images for a red pick-up in the driveway. 54-09 en route.
Officer Grabowski : Unbelievable.
Officer Parker : Good boy, Jack.
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Officer Parker : Is there daylight in your room?
[Jack nods]
Officer Parker : Okay, good. How many windows?
Jack : Zero.
Officer Parker : Well, then how does the sun come in?
Jack : Through Skylight.
Officer Parker : Skylight? Okay, excellent. So you live in a house with a skylight?
Jack : No, it's not a house.
Officer Parker : Okay.
Jack : It's a...
Officer Parker : Yeah?
Jack : It's a...
Officer Grabowski : Uh, you'd get more out of him after he's had some sleep.
Officer Parker : Tom, give it a second.
Jack : Room's a... a shed.
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Dr. Mittal : The most important thing you did was get him out while he's still plastic.
Ma : What?
Jack : [whispering in her ear] I'm not plastic.
Dr. Mittal : What's that, Jack?
Ma : He says that he's... he's real. He's not plastic.
Dr. Mittal : Well, you got me there, Jack. You're real. And you're very brave.
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Jack : You got soup in my eye.
