Movies that involve individuals or groups being trapped in confined spaces, such as a box or a room, tend to follow a familiar pattern. Typically, there is an enigmatic figure, often a professor, orchestrating the events. Their motives for studying the human condition remain undisclosed, leaving the audience to speculate about their grand purpose. In most cases, the promise of a substantial cash prize serves as an incentive, attracting a queue of desperate individuals willing to participate. Ultimately, these movies often culminate in violent confrontations between the trapped individuals. “The Immaculate Room” adheres to this well-established formula, weaving together suspense and intrigue in its unique way.
What’s The Immaculate Room About?
The concept for the Immaculate Room puts partners, Mikey (Emile Hirsch), and Kate (Kate Bosworth) in a white room. They have a white bed and white walls. The bathroom is also white and when they check the room’s computer panel they are issued a white milk container of which the Mikey purports the contents, taste like “nothing.” Unlike in a similarly framed trapped-in-a-room film, Cube, nothing dangerous immediately pops into the frame to try and kill them. Kate and Mikey need to spend 50 days in the white room and for their troubles, they could take home $5 million.
When you take the element of danger out of the equation like in another film of its ilk, The Honeymoon Phase, the narrative is left only with a story about people. Less of a movie like any of the Escape Room films, The Immaculate Room wants to be more about moralistic undertones.
Like The Sims, Except With Real People
What would happen if you stripped away every single distraction and only provided the ones that served the purpose of the experiment? Would you still have a film that audiences could stay invested in? Moreover, didn’t the interactive PC game, The Sims, already allow us to do this? I was often cast back to when I left my poor Sim without doors or windows. He got really sad. The Immaculate Room wants to answer that question, with real people.
The crux of the story is this; Mikey and Kate are happy in their marriage. Both would really like some money. Kate is driven to win for more apathetic reasons that are revealed far into the final quarter of the film.
Mikey is somewhat of a spoiled rich kid who just wants some cash to pursue another of his ambitions. He’s an artist. That’s not to judge Mikey. Everyone wants different things in life. It doesn’t make him a bad person. Kate’s problem is far more complicated, and so for her, not getting the prize money is a little more difficult to give up. Especially if one of the contestants wants to go home.
So how does the Immaculate Room end? Of course, there is violence but on a scale of “Escape Room” to “Cube“, it doesn’t really rate. As a chatty and predictive character study, this is a film that doesn’t really offer all that much. What it did make me think about was that I wish a mysterious professor would offer me $5 million to stay in a white room for 50 days. But alas I don’t know of one.
The Immaculate Room is rated
2.5 bugs called cluey out of 5
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The title was released in the USA on August 19th, 2022. It will be made available digitally in other regions from October 5th, 2022. Where can I watch the immaculate room? for more options on streaming The Immaculate Room, see the link below.
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Directed and written by Mukunda Michael Dewil
The cast of The Immaculate Room:
- Emile Hirsch
- Kate Bosworth
- Ashley Greene
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