I didn't understand how Alexandria decided that Roy's fiance didn't really love him. Was it just because she refused to come into the hospital? She was crying alone in the car. Was is just me or did that seem like crocodile tears?
Also that revelation seemed to empower Roy with more resilience. Roy accepted that very easily. Why would that make him feel better? It seems like it would complicate things further. Survivor mentality? I didn't understand.
When Alexandria said "she doesn't love you" I think she meant Nurse Evelyn (who was the lead female in her imagination... not Roy's fiance). Her perception of Nurse Evelyn was kind of shattered when Alexandria caught her shtooping the doctor.
I don't think it was the revelation that empowered Roy, it was Alexandria.
Ok. Well I obviously wasn't paying attention. You mean Alexandria in general.
It doesn't make him feel better. It galvanizes him to turn the story he's telling even darker. What makes him feel better is when Alexandria tells him she loves him. Accepting that he can be loved by someone else is what makes him feel better.
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It makes up Roy's mind to go through with the suicide and to kill off all of the other characters. He seems empowered because he has decided on his course of action, turning away from the "weakness" of looking for love.
The only other course that occurs to Roy is his drastic response, but finally Alexandria shows him that there is more to life than romantic infatuation.
I understand. Thank you for telling me. -The masked bandit
Just watched this recently again, and the answer is very simple. As Roy is telling the story, they eventually identify the woman as Nurse Evelyn. Near the end, right around the time when they go into Odious's palace, Alexandra reveals that she saw the real-life nurse Evelyn with a man from the hospital. Since she had already seen the old photographs of Roy with the actress, she makes the connection that the woman she saw in the car was Roy's girlfriend. She compares the "betrayal" of Nurse Evelyn (with the man from the hospital) to the woman in the car who did not visit Roy. It was obvious enough to a child that the smiling woman in an old photo did not dare to come see Roy because she was with another man. Roy himself says something about, "She's only with him for his money, and someday she'll leave him for a richer man" in the fantasy, but I think he was referring to the reality.
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