I’d sort of liked to have had Governor Odious turn out to be Roy, for example, instead of making him the movie-within-a-movie’s “real” star, a far easier target.
But we're inside Alexandria's head: the Governor is never going to look like Roy, who is the storyteller she loves even when he's killing off all the characters; just as Odious' fiancée does not look like Roy's actual girlfriend, whom Alexandria glimpses exactly once, crying in the car, but like Nurse Evelyn, whom she completely fantasizes is going to fall in love with Roy, even though she clearly has something going on with one of the doctors. We never get to see what the story looks like to Roy, except maybe at the end when we realize just how much of the plot he pinched from the movie he was working on—he's a great teller of stories, but not so much an inventor of them; that's Alexandria's department.
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Date: 2008-09-19 05:00 pm (UTC)But we're inside Alexandria's head: the Governor is never going to look like Roy, who is the storyteller she loves even when he's killing off all the characters; just as Odious' fiancée does not look like Roy's actual girlfriend, whom Alexandria glimpses exactly once, crying in the car, but like Nurse Evelyn, whom she completely fantasizes is going to fall in love with Roy, even though she clearly has something going on with one of the doctors. We never get to see what the story looks like to Roy, except maybe at the end when we realize just how much of the plot he pinched from the movie he was working on—he's a great teller of stories, but not so much an inventor of them; that's Alexandria's department.