From the first moment the characters are shown, it is clear they have nothing in common and arguments are going to be all over the place. Kate and Michael depict two opposite ways of dealing with the Room. The two main characters seem to live two parallel lives, which never meet. Why did the director write these? Just to show two opposite characters within the Room? Michael and Kate learn nothing from each other. They do not grow or develop.
The characters and their stories are not well explored or developed. When they receive outside messages, we still feel like we don't know the characters.
Why is Kate so upset about her father? Instead of empathizing with her, the spectator feels confused. Showing Kate have a breakdown in bed does not really help in making us feel for her. Dialogs between Kate and Michael are shallow, pointless, they do not lead to the next point of the story. Why does Michael's sister not like Kate? This is never developed.
Kate and Michael's feelings, thoughts, fears, doubts are not particularly developed or heartfelt. Michael appears to be constantly high or lost in space. Kate appears to be OCD, forcing herself to play the good soldier.
The rest of story is predictable: Kate trying to be the good soldier, Michael being the rebel one. Treats are predictable, like Michael receiving a woman and eliciting feelings of jealousy, anger, frustration. The psychedelic/acid trip scenes are a desperate attempt at luring in a certain type of audience, or perhaps at appearing in tune with modern times.
The rules of the Room are available on the monitor, but they are not developed well. The final argument between the two is predictable, boring and not particularly memorable.
What was the message of the movie? That people are willing to kill each other for money? That people eventually go crazy and start hating each other after isolating for too long? That human kind really is selfish, brutal, primordial, fragile? If so, these messages were not conveyed well. At the end of the movie I did not particularly feel for the characters, did not empathize with them, did not take away any special message or new revelation.
I found THX 1138 much more interesting.
The characters and their stories are not well explored or developed. When they receive outside messages, we still feel like we don't know the characters.
Why is Kate so upset about her father? Instead of empathizing with her, the spectator feels confused. Showing Kate have a breakdown in bed does not really help in making us feel for her. Dialogs between Kate and Michael are shallow, pointless, they do not lead to the next point of the story. Why does Michael's sister not like Kate? This is never developed.
Kate and Michael's feelings, thoughts, fears, doubts are not particularly developed or heartfelt. Michael appears to be constantly high or lost in space. Kate appears to be OCD, forcing herself to play the good soldier.
The rest of story is predictable: Kate trying to be the good soldier, Michael being the rebel one. Treats are predictable, like Michael receiving a woman and eliciting feelings of jealousy, anger, frustration. The psychedelic/acid trip scenes are a desperate attempt at luring in a certain type of audience, or perhaps at appearing in tune with modern times.
The rules of the Room are available on the monitor, but they are not developed well. The final argument between the two is predictable, boring and not particularly memorable.
What was the message of the movie? That people are willing to kill each other for money? That people eventually go crazy and start hating each other after isolating for too long? That human kind really is selfish, brutal, primordial, fragile? If so, these messages were not conveyed well. At the end of the movie I did not particularly feel for the characters, did not empathize with them, did not take away any special message or new revelation.
I found THX 1138 much more interesting.