I think hippogriffrider means that her being a woman is the reason why people expect her to be perfect. Women are seldomly allowed to have real flaws in movies. They are either saints or complete trainwrecks.

Well, he had to at least seem like a viable option.

You can't just decide that it doesn't matter. The job is crucial. She explicitly leaves the country because she can't get a better job, and her sister's job gets mentioned several times as something she wants to achieve. It's her "Want", in simple screenwriting theory terms, the thing she thinks she wants and she has…

I found him developed enough, and at least a lot more than the other guy.

She explicitly replaces her sister at the office. Do you think that was a coincidence?
And being married to the guy you love is not exactly a bitter fate.

Well, not any man, we're talking about Domhnall Gleeson here. Dude deserves a break. We can be glad she didn't lock him into a room before she escaped.

I want more movies like The Revenant, with lots of men and one woman whose only role is to get raped and rescued!

Halfway through Brooklyn, my husband turned to me and asked "Why am I so afraid that something bad will happen to those two?"
Because the movie works hard to make you care about them. That's why it's so great.

Exactly! It's not about choosing between two men, it's about achieving the freedom of choice in the first place.

Especially after the landlady made a big deal out of giving this room only to "a girl she can trust".

I had to watch it twice on the big screen. It wasn't as excruciatingly painful the second time around, but still not a good movie.

Yeah, he was better in that. He was a decent actor being given horrible material on Smash.

Room was my least favorite of this year's batch (we already had that conversation), but I still liked it. This is the rare year where I liked every single nominee. Last year I couldn't even stand half of them.

Did you miss how she got raped by a bear upon her arrival at Ellis Island?

I didn't know him when I first watched About Time, and it was the kind of performance where I immediately had to go online to see who that guy was.

No one valued her there, it's why she had to leave in the first place. They only welcomed her once her sister was dead, then tried to take all her decisions from her and mold her into her sister.
You seem too hung up on the men in her life. It's a film about a woman discovering her own strengths and finding her own…

But it's a film about self-discovery and personal growth. What made her life in Brooklyn better was that it was her own. Everyone in Ireland just wanted her to become her sister. Those weren't new opportunities, it was settling. Life is more than an office job and interchangeable husbands.

Yeah, in my opinion it was definitely a case of the writing holding the actor back.

He definitely was lonely. Maybe he should just go to Brooklyn and meet new people.

In his defense, who could come off as competent with lines like "MY SISTER IS WAITING FOR ME IN CHINA"?