The Room Next Door

setting and depressed characters. But Pedro with his vibrant & vivid colors around characters, with dry humour tells a story of ending pain after enduring so much of it throughout life in different forms. Martha ( Tilda Swinton) is a war journalist who saw all the death and suffering, she endured pain of estranged relationship with her daughter, now she had to endure the pain of chemotherapy which she thought is just punishment for her, she was never scared of death, but she wanted to things because there was no meaning left in enduring this more pain and eventually die. But more than that decision, what this movie feels special is the way pedro portrays the friendship between these two. Pair of two brilliant actresses who provided that heartfelt depth to the character which needed. But the film really lacks emotional depth as a whole, maybe because the film shows death, grief, meaning of life in a very non philosophical way or to say in a casual way. I don't know if it was a deliberate approach or not, but it did work for me much. And once Martha's character is dead, there is nothing left in the movie. It just sinks in the last 10 minutes or so. The movie should have ended on a high emotional note. The movie had everything that you will love, but you will miss hard hitting emotions. Maybe its more laid back take on death and life, but it did not work throughout the movie for me.