“Much like Ros’s novels, then, The Room is remarkable for the way it seems to expose the absurd artifices of its form by getting everything about that form so flagrantly wrong. Wiseau’s failure to achieve the clichés he seems to aim for at the level of plot, dialogue, and performance eventually starts to look like aesthetic subversion.” The RoomWiseau Book:Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever Source: Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever
“He shows, however accidentally, that the devices and conventions we have learned to respond to do not necessarily solve or even do anything. More than any artist I can think of, Wiseau proves Northrop Frye’s belief that all conventions are, at heart, insane.” The RoomWiseauNorthrop Frye Book:Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever Source: Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever