The story of a straight man betrayed by the world

Verna 2022-03-21 09:01:59

I barely finished it, and I also read other people's interpretations. I have one myself: I found the scenes and lines to be so boring, but they were all true, like a bad-mouthed person chatting with the world. I suddenly felt that this movie is a A straight man who doesn't know how to chat, accusing him of betraying his career, lover, and friends. His perspective is subjective and stream-of-consciousness, so often the scene jumps are illogical, and his lines are monotonous, because this is a clumsy The person's own words, with the help of all the actors. The suicide at the end is a repressed eruption of the betrayal around him. So everything makes sense. And as someone who also can't chat, I'm familiar and sympathetic to this expression.

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The Room quotes

  • Lisa: Denny, are you okay? What did that man want from you?

    Denny: Nothing.

    Claudette: Oh, that was not nothing!

    Lisa: Tell me everything!

    Claudette: You have no idea what kind of trouble you're in here, do you?

    Denny: I owe him some money.

    Lisa: What kind of money?

    Denny: I owe him some money!

    Lisa: What kind of money?

    Denny: Everything is okay! He's gone!

    Claudette: Everything is not okay. Denny, that is a dangerous man!

    Denny: Calm down! He's going to jail!

    Lisa: Denny, what kind of money? Just tell me!

    Claudette: What do you need money for?

    Lisa: Mom, please! Denny is with me and Johnny!

    Claudette: A man like that! With a gun! My god!

  • Lisa: Denny, look at me in the eyes and tell the truth. We're your friends.

    Denny: I bought some drugs off of him. Things got mixed up. I didn't mean for this to happen!

    Lisa: [crying] Denny...

    Denny: I don't have them anymore!

    Lisa: What kind of drugs, Denny?

    Denny: It doesn't matter, I don't have them anymore!

    Claudette: It doesn't matter? How in the hell did you get involved with drugs?

    Lisa: Mom...

    Claudette: What? Were you giving them to him, selling them to him? Where in the hell did you meet that man?

    Lisa: [screaming] What kind of drugs do you take?

    Denny: It's nothing like that!

    Lisa: [screaming] What the hell is wrong with you?

    Denny: I just needed some money to pay off some stuff!

    Lisa: How much do you have to give him?

    Claudette: This is not the way you make money!

    Lisa: [screaming] How much?

    Denny: [screaming] Stop ganging up on me!

    Claudette: Well, it is time somebody ganged up on you for God's sake! A man like that! Where in the hell did you meet a man like that?

    Denny: It doesn't matter!

    Claudette: It matters a great deal! A man holds a gun on you! You almost got killed and you expect me to forget that happened?

    Denny: You're not my fucking mother!

    Claudette: [grabs Denny by the shirt] You listen, you little boy!

    Lisa: No, stop! No!

    [grabs and hugs Denny]

    Claudette: Somebody had better do something around here!