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Why Did Roberta Do This?

posted 16 years ago by Withrow68
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First, let me say that I know the real answer to this question is that it was not time for the movie to end yet; however, here is a major plot hole I don't understand.

Roberta has regained her memory and slept with Dez as Roberta, not as Susan. They wake up the next morning and are about to resume making love when Jim comes in.

Dez and Jim argue as Dez admits to sleeping with the woman he still believes to be Susan.

Roberta is feeling all guilt ridden and full of stress and leaves without even saying good bye.

Why?

Was she hurt that Dez told Jim that sleeping with Susan (her) was a sh**tty thing to do?
Was she feeling guilty about having cheated on Gary?
She had regained her memory. All she had to do was come out of the kitchen. When Jim saw her, he would know Dez had not slept with Susan and the argument between the friends would have been over.
Was Roberta just depressed to be Robera again instead of Susan and let down that a night of great sex with Dez did not solve all of her emotional problems?

Why did Roberta leave and not just come out of the kitchen when Dez called to her?

The way that she left, you got the impression that she was through with Dez, but then she went back to him at the end.

[–] PiercedDiva 16 years ago

I think at this point she was probably confused on what she was going to do either leave Gary or go back to him,I think also she was worried that her "new life" had taken a turn for the worse that Dez would see that she was just plain old Roberta from New Jersey and not the wild woman that she was living the life of and assumed Dez wanted to be with,and a married woman at that so she figured she would make a break for it while she could rather than to go on fooling Dez and herself. Then when Gary turns up at her act at the Magic Club she sees that she isn't happy with him and knows she probably never will be so she tells him she's not going back to him because she most likely enjoyed the wild life she was living as Susan and wanted more than Gary could give so she leaves him and tries to give it another shot with Dez knowing he as a better chance of giving her the excitement she craved and the fact that she probably had pretty much fallen for him. Also she most likely found out that Gary cheated on her which was another one of her reasons for leaving him.

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[–] SataiDelen 10 years ago

I think you're both right to a point.

The way I always saw it was this way: I think that Roberta wanted to tell Dez who she really was in her own way, not by Jim putting things straight by likely saying, "Who the BLEEP are you?!" if she came out of the kitchen when Dez called her. I also think a part of her wasn't ready for things to end. By leaving and letting them both still think she was Susan, she could hold on to the fantasy a little longer. I think that regardless of if she ever saw Dez again, she knew her marriage was over, and she had no intention of going back to him. She was a different person and wanted more from her life than what Gary either could or was prepared to offer her, even if he were to agree to stop seeing his mistress (which I think she knew about at the beginning of the movie).

When they all meet up at the Magic Club, and Gary and Dez are helping her out of the box, and they start bombarding her with questions, and shouting at each other, that gave her the push she needed to end it with Gary then and there, and see if she could salvage her relationship with Dez.

That's how I saw it.

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[–] lamont-hard 9 years ago

Give Gary some credit, she most likely did not want him to know anything until she had the chance to let him down easy. Give the guy at least one point in the film.