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Question about Roat

posted 17 years ago by novastar_6
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I'm confused here...granted I just finished watching this movie during a night of absolutely not sleep, but did that Roat guy with the sunglasses play both of the other Roats as well? Hell of a guy for identity change if that's the case...but then what was that Mike and Carlino were talking about with "WHAT about that Mr. Roat?" when they were all out at the van? And when Mike says don't worry about Roat, they cut to some guy getting run over again and again, and again with a car, isn't that supposed to be the Mr. Roat Jr. of whom Lisa was supposed to be married to, or was that Carlino getting run over?

[–] usersince03 17 years ago

I'm confused here...granted I just finished watching this movie during a night of absolutely not sleep, but did that Roat guy with the sunglasses play both of the other Roats as well? Hell of a guy for identity change if that's the case...but then what was that Mike and Carlino were talking about with "WHAT about that Mr. Roat?" when they were all out at the van? And when Mike says don't worry about Roat, they cut to some guy getting run over again and again, and again with a car, isn't that supposed to be the Mr. Roat Jr. of whom Lisa was supposed to be married to, or was that Carlino getting run over?

Yes Roat was dressed up in disguise so Gloria the neighbour would not recognise him. I'm not sure but I thought it was Roat running over Carlino.

[–] mercutio-8 17 years ago

***SPOILERS***

Although psychotic, Roat was frighteningly intelligent. He anticipated that Mike and Carlino would try to kill him, but he beat them to the punch.

"Did you know they wanted to kill me?" he asks the terrified Suzy in the final showdown. "I did. I knew it even before they did. They had comic book minds, so we did it their way...right up to the end. And then...topsy turvy! Me topsy...and them turvy!"

[–] danlinjer 14 years ago

I remember having seen this in the theatre when I was about 6 or so. The part where Roat ran over the other guy over and over in the parkinglot absolutely horrified me! At that age, I really didn't know anything about the seedier side of life or that it even existed.

[–] hka-3 14 years ago

Yikes. I know the feeling, though. In order to get us out of the house, my dad and step-mom used to send me and my older siblings to watch twisted films -- too twisted for youngsters (my siblings were quite a bit older though, so it didn't affect them like it did me). Fortunately when I saw Wait Until Dark on tv when I was 10 it was tame compared to films I'd seen prior to it.

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