The Mars Room Movie

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.

The mars room movie.

With matt damon jessica chastain kristen wiig kate mara. 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. Brilliant but devastating the mars room chronicles life behind bars may 10 2018 rachel kushner s heartbreaking nearly flawless third novel centers on romy hall a young woman who s just been. It is audacious and tragic propulsive and yet beautifully refined.

A weird little chapter about richard nixon in opryland for instance is darkly comic and unsettling while hinting at some chilling. Stunning and unsentimental the mars room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in kushner s work. 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. 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.

The mars room was shortlisted for the 2018 man booker prize and the national book critics circle award for fiction. Directed by ridley scott. Ironically the mars room is best in its minor incidents.