“The Room” is a type of surrealism, but it is an entirely new and original kind of surrealism. It is completely Tommy Wiseau. There’s a moment when Lisa’s mother casually announces, “I definitely have breast cancer,” and then the conversation simply moves on. No one reacts with the weight you would expect, and the film itself never returns to it. And there’s no explanation, it just disappears. And it is absurd, like a tear in the fabric of the story, and yet it seems absolutely true and absolutely appropriate.And there was this — I know I’m taking a long time to answer your question. There was this way in which I all of a sudden realized that what the really great artists do, and it sounds very trite to say it, but what the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves. They’ve got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality, and that if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings. And this is what “The Room” did for me.
I still think it was written as a comedy. I don't believe Sestero's narrative.
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>>219346819Wiseau's story is not different from an incel rant on /r9k/. He was probably honest but too mentally damage to make it barely coherent
imagine the sexual abuse needed to break someone's mind that the result is tommy wiseau
>>219346819I agree. TW has pretty clearly been winking at the camera the entire time. Sometimes you'll even catch his airhead persona slip in interviews. Wiseau knew he was making a comedy and Sestero was the one in the dark. Acting like Tommy was the one out of touch with reality after the fact is just Sestero coping.
