7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Room Next Door (2024)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.1
Overview
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by championing individual autonomy and empathy while directly critiquing authoritarianism and far-right exclusionary politics, making its political stance clearly left.
The film explores significant themes of autonomy, empathy, and female friendship, challenging male-centric narratives and critiquing authoritarianism and xenophobia. While its main characters are white women, the narrative engages with broader social issues relevant to DEI discussions, particularly concerning individual rights and social control.
Secondary
The film offers a subtle and indirect portrayal of LGBTQ+ themes. While the central female relationship is explicitly platonic, a brief flashback features a tender, sensitively handled romantic moment between two men. This moment adds a subtle queer dimension to the narrative without being central, resulting in an incidental depiction that neither strongly affirms nor denigrates.
The film, influenced by the director's non-belief despite a Catholic upbringing, implicitly contrasts Christian faith-based views on mortality and individual choices like euthanasia with its overarching emphasis on human connection, empathy, and solidarity, suggesting a limitation in dogmatic approaches.
The film *The Room Next Door* focuses on themes of friendship, mortality, and companionship between two women. Despite director Pedro Almodóvar's previous works featuring trans characters, this film does not include any transsexual characters or themes, marking a departure from his earlier, more overtly queer-inclusive narratives.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film's characters, including Martha and Ingrid, maintain the same gender as established in the source novel, What Are You Going Through. No character's on-screen gender differs from their original canonical portrayal.
The film's major characters, Martha, Ingrid, and Damian, were not explicitly defined by race in the source novel. The casting of white actors for these roles is consistent with their implied Western backgrounds and the film's narrative focus on a specific social group, thus not constituting a race swap.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.8
6.8
Critic Ratings
8.0
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