Post by broncosman on Oct 31, 2024 20:19:27 GMT
Back around 2011 or so, I remember randomly running into this experimental art film called "The Room" on youtube. It was about an hour long, in black and white, and featured a man mysteriously waking up to find himself trapped in a locked room, with no recollection as to how he got there. There is a phone in the room, and soon it starts to ring. There's a woman on the other end, and that's what makes up most of the movie - his long and winding conversation with this woman. I remember she asks to speak with someone named Hamaha, and the man tells her that he's not him and he doesn't know anyone by that name either. She continues to insist on speaking with him though, saying something like "But this is the number I was given to reach Hamaha". The man tries to question her about his predicament in the room and get some help, but she can't do anything for him - both of them seem to be equally clueless, she doesn't know anything about him and why he's trapped in the room, and he doesn't know anything about Hamaha.
They end up having a long and deep conversation tho, bonding with each other. Eventually the woman reveals that she is actually a patient at a mental institution, that there is no Hamaha, she just made him up as an excuse to talk, and that she reached him just by punching a random number into the phone. The man is even more distraught by this, seeing his situation as hopeless. He hangs up the phone. Then we see him grab the phone cord and follow it to its end, only to show that actually the phone was disconnected the entire time, and this is how the movie ends.
I've been trying hard to find this, but have been having some trouble because it shares a name with the famous Tommy Wiseau so-bad-it's-good drama lol. In fact, this is even how I originally ran into it back then - I was looking for the Wiseau film and it just popped up in the search results.
They end up having a long and deep conversation tho, bonding with each other. Eventually the woman reveals that she is actually a patient at a mental institution, that there is no Hamaha, she just made him up as an excuse to talk, and that she reached him just by punching a random number into the phone. The man is even more distraught by this, seeing his situation as hopeless. He hangs up the phone. Then we see him grab the phone cord and follow it to its end, only to show that actually the phone was disconnected the entire time, and this is how the movie ends.
I've been trying hard to find this, but have been having some trouble because it shares a name with the famous Tommy Wiseau so-bad-it's-good drama lol. In fact, this is even how I originally ran into it back then - I was looking for the Wiseau film and it just popped up in the search results.
