I mean, I know the play was titled the same, but I can't figure out why? Maybe in the play my answer would be more clear, but here it just doesn't make sense. It's just the room that the old man is dying in. So? Why decide "Let's call it Marvin's Room"? It really does not have anything at all to do with Marvin's Room. ??
shareMarvin's Room is where all the pain comes from, and it's also where Keaton and ultimately the other characters find human warmth and love. It's called Marvin's Room because the whole thing is about finding something good and pure in a situation that is awful.
shareThanks. Your reasoning makes as much sense as I think I could get. I still think there are better titles for it.
shareYeah it didnt click until the end and theyre all standing there and Meryl brings in the medicine tray... And they all laugh and cry and get All emotional.
shareI think "Marvin's Room" is a metaphor for a place of shared pain, physical and emotional pain.
shareThe title makes more sense when you see the play. The theater audience never sees Marvin or enters that room, although the room is a prominent and visible part of the set. I think you see the door and the whole translucent panel wall with the light inside, as in the movie.
So the room is right there and inside is their incapacitated father, and the ostensible source of all the years of estrangement between the sisters, the pain and gain they both had because of their respective choices, the reason they became the people they are. . .but we never approach it, much less go inside.
And, boom, there's your metaphor.
cpoet- thank you! I completely get it now.
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