The Room (2019)
August 20, 2024 6:10 PM - Subscribe
[Trailer] Matt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they long for the most is a child. -- IMDb
I watched this a while back. I found it interesting, and reasonably well done, if a bit predictable once the baby shows up. I got creeped out by some of the grown-up child/mother scenes, and would rather they not have gone there.
At the very least it was a cool high concept.
posted by Tabitha Someday at 6:31 PM on August 20 [1 favorite]
At the very least it was a cool high concept.
posted by Tabitha Someday at 6:31 PM on August 20 [1 favorite]
Oh, hi, Mark! Ha ha ha! How's your -- oh, 2019, I see, never mind.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 5:00 AM on August 21 [8 favorites]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 5:00 AM on August 21 [8 favorites]
I was thinking that that scene happened because suddenly her son was in a teenage body but had had only 3 months of socializing. I appreciate the horrific nature of it in a film I expected to be horror, but even just coming to that explanation took me out of the movie--and, since this wasn't a tightly-plotted mystery where you know you'll have to study and think back on various details you've witnessed or been told, I'd agree that taking me out of the movie even that little bit made the scene a failure on the authors' part.
For me, the film really suffers from fridge logic in general. I liked it well enough last night; today, not as much.
How does the room work, exactly? All that wine they drank, when they went out, did it turn to vinegar in their guts? I can understand wanting a son, but what about both the ethics and the potential of what they've discovered? If they can create a vast landscape inside the room, surely they're not limited by weight or any conventional understanding of physics. Couldn't they have created a machine which pulls excess carbon from the atmosphere and converts it into bricks they bury in the room? Couldn't they have asked for Welles' final print of The Magnificent Ambersons, and bought the equipment to duplicate it onto a medium they could take outside? What about a button to kill a random billionaire every time it's pressed? (Depending on their character, they might also want to ask for a way to keep from hitting it like the drum solo in "The End.") Or a precise, detailed written description of a new, successful method of targeting cancer cells?
So many opportunities. I like the concept; I wish they'd taken it farther. And I appreciate the story they were trying to tell but, eh. Fridge logic.
posted by johnofjack at 1:34 PM on August 21 [1 favorite]
For me, the film really suffers from fridge logic in general. I liked it well enough last night; today, not as much.
How does the room work, exactly? All that wine they drank, when they went out, did it turn to vinegar in their guts? I can understand wanting a son, but what about both the ethics and the potential of what they've discovered? If they can create a vast landscape inside the room, surely they're not limited by weight or any conventional understanding of physics. Couldn't they have created a machine which pulls excess carbon from the atmosphere and converts it into bricks they bury in the room? Couldn't they have asked for Welles' final print of The Magnificent Ambersons, and bought the equipment to duplicate it onto a medium they could take outside? What about a button to kill a random billionaire every time it's pressed? (Depending on their character, they might also want to ask for a way to keep from hitting it like the drum solo in "The End.") Or a precise, detailed written description of a new, successful method of targeting cancer cells?
So many opportunities. I like the concept; I wish they'd taken it farther. And I appreciate the story they were trying to tell but, eh. Fridge logic.
posted by johnofjack at 1:34 PM on August 21 [1 favorite]
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posted by johnofjack at 6:15 PM on August 20